BUHARI MARS AN OTHERWISE GOOD ELECTION, VOTERS APATHY REPLACED BY UNDERAGE VOTERS?

 

Reports reaching Icheoku from motherland has it that so many voters stayed away from the polling votes in the governorship/state assembly election, with less than 15% of registered voters showing up in some precincts. It was so abysmal in some areas that underage teenagers were freely handed voting ballots just to fill in the gaps. 

The low voter turnout was blamed on the violence perpetrated by Imam Muhammadu Buhari incensed almajiri-miscreants, who maimed and killed hundreds of fellow Nigerians just because their chief mullah lost the presidential election. Also the low voter turnout was caused in part because the election was fixed so close to the Easter holidays when so many people traveled out of their registered areas to be with their families for the holidays. Icheoku queries why the election was fixed so near the holiday and not a later future date to ensure a good turnout? If elections were postponed in the past, common sense dictates that the gubernatorial/state assembly election should have been similarly deferred to make room for traveled voters to come back as well as for spooked voters to come out of their shock and get a handle on Buhari's instigated violence, before coming back out to vote. 

Icheoku asks, would the result of such election conducted under the prevailing fear circumstance, with very low voter turnout hold as the true representation of the people's will? Icheoku says, we do not think so; and hereby call on INEC to consider cancelling the governorship/state assembly elections and reschedule them for a later date if that will help solve the credibility question. Lastly, Icheoku says that Imam Muhammadu Buhari should be held responsible for spoiling an otherwise good election. Buhari has by festering post-presidential election violence damaged the psyche of an otherwise enthused Nigerian populace, eagerly appearing at every past election to chose their preferred candidates. Buhari and no one else should be held responsible for the low turnout in the gubernatorial/state assemblies election and be extension, marred an otherwise peaceful, free and fair election just because he was rejected by Nigerians and thereby prevented from implementing his Islamic Sharia agenda in Nigeria. Muhammadu Buhari, Icheoku says, shame on you!