APC Membership Registration Drive: The Preparation For Scientific Rigging

Welcome to Nigeria, a pseudo democratic republic where in all sorts of absurdities goes on in the name of democracy.

First for the purpose of clarification, let's have some definitions.

In the manner peculiar to Nigeria and Nigerians, let's go to the United States of America to borrow a more apt and popular definition of democracy as rendered by Abraham Lincoln in that well-praised Gettysburg address of November 19, 1863. In that short memorable speech, Lincoln defined democracy as “the government of the people, by the people, for the people”.

That done, let's proceed to our second definition, crucial for conveying fully the import of this rendition.

Let's define election. According to the Wikipedia – “An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office”. Wikipedia further stated that “Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century”. Imagine, a system as old 400 years is what Nigerian dealers of misfortune keep alluding to as nascent. I wonder why their insatiable quests for meaningless materialism and aggrandizement are not cautioned by the same yardstick, in the same manner of the tails of nascent democracy with which they regale us to explain their inefficiencies. Tweak your imaginations dear readers! The latest of technological gargets