THE PROBLEM WITH VOTER INDIFFERENCE
Naija News • 1h ago
MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE writes that the worsening case of complacency among the Nigerian electorate should be urgently arrested
First, an arguably wild, probably unempirical, seemingly alarmist, but potentially valid statement: Today’s Nigerian political office seekers are far less bothered with what the electorates think about them compared with their counterparts in the previous republics and even those at the earlier stages of this Fourth Republic. The game of politics, once dominated by aggressive but sincere wooing of the voting crowd is now giving way to ignoble and blatant occurrences like “votes delivery”, phoney landslides, rushing for solace and protection in the “winning, largest party in Africa” and the “go to court!” retort from those declared winners by the not always transparen...