On Ekiti Election – Segun Showunmi

Catastropy Looms in Nigeria Under PMB.

The whole idea of Democracy especially periodic elections is to give the people the opportunity to choose per time who should lead them.

The hope is that legitimacy to function in office is granted when the will of the people counts and their wishes is respected. Anything short of that is to turn democracy on its head with attendant consequences.

Now that the electoral umpires have declared the result in favor of Kayode Fayemi of APC, it is appropriate to say congratulations to the purported winner.

The next days will be spent grinding over the report from our party agents and the observers. There are worrying signs that the Ekiti election may not have met the minimum acceptable standards and thankfully the election tribunals are available to be explored.

No decent Democrat would prays that the wishes of the people be subverted if it has indeed been as one suspects in this election.

The excessive monetization of the Ekiti Election is questionable indeed of all elections that have been conducted under this Buhari led APC given the supposed integrity of President Buhari is, to say the least disgraceful.

It shows that the president is a hypocrite and he will look the other way when actions that are not consistent with his supposed reputation is carried out so far as it is for his benefit.

Pray where did APC get the humongous amount that has been spent on the just concluded Ekiti hiest, I dare say Buhari has lost the right to mention the word anti-corruption not to talk of claims to be fighting it.

On this note, I wish to call for the stoppage of all court cases of all PDP political operative especially party managers, Olisa Methuh and co for it makes no sense to point at the spark in your brother’s eyes when you have logs in your own eyes.

On the excessive exposure of the security apparatus to elections generally and the mad usage of so-called federal might on the helpless and innocent Ekiti people, I say shame on President Buhari and the APC government. People are getting killed all over the country all the government can do is to divert the overstretched security resources to Ekiti to traumatize innocent citizen all in the name of an election heist that leaves a sore taste in the mouths of every decent person who has not been cowed or bullied to submission.

If the attitude of the APC to elections is anything to go by one can safely conclude that 2019 elections will be very demanding.

There is a mathematical assumption known as the catastrophic hypothesis, the now-defunct idea that the planets and smaller bodies of the solar system originated in a violent event involving a collision or near-collision between the Sun and another object” seeks to measure how series of random events can be measured to predict a catastrophic result. As things look now the APC is testing the resolve of Nigerians and they will find Nigerians very resolved, we have as a people defeated military dictatorship and by the grace of God we will defeat the tendencies that seek to foster a civilian dictatorship on our country.

Dear members of the organized civil society groups you must know that politics and democracy are too important to be left to civilian dictators masquerading as politicians, we all must be alive to our responsibilities and safeguard this our hard-fought and hard-won democracy.

When the idea of a coalition of political parties first got muted some felt it was an exercise to be joked with, I believe that events have proved just how timely and far thinking the idea is, clearly it is a straight fight between APC the repressive rent seekers pretending to be progressive and PDP the open and accommodative party of the people. We must move to speed up the detailed negotiations and get a united platform to get our country Nigeria working again, we must snap out of the idea that anyone can do it along. We are stronger together and we can better stand to challenge this dictatorial regime if democracy is to survive.

All cannot be fair in democracy for democracy is no war, it is a government of the people by the people and for the people. APC and Fayemi it is not over see, you at the tribunal.