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2019 PERMUTATIONS

2019 PERMUTATIONS BY AGADA IKECHUKWU The high-wired intrigues that characterized events leading to 2019 shows that the general elections will throw up a lot of surprises. To some, they are delicious, like the luscious little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg while others view them as irreversible shadows of more injurious grim reality hence the unmistaken desperation. Politics is an art reserved for shrewd and sly elements among the human race; which means, you have to learn the rules of the game to assume the master status. The recent shuttles made by President Buhari to Kano, Nasarawa, Adamawa States, his visit to Fulani militarised state of Taraba and his planned visit to other grieving states remains litmus test conducted in an electoral laboratory to feel the pulse of the peoples, size his following, engage in extensive consultations ahead of his second term declaration to enable his strategists to fall back to their rigging drawing board in the perceived weak stat...

APC AND THEIR RIGGING ORCHESTRA : INEC AS THE WILLING TOOL

APC AND THEIR RIGGING ORCHESTRA : INEC AS THE WILLING TOOL BY AGADA IKECHUKWU Change remains one of the world’s most revered phenomenon. But while every new change spells good tidings for some, for others, it brings the worst of life’s vicissitudes. It is the wisdom of the crocodiles to shed tears when they would devour. But unlike the beast of the deep, INEC betray no bloody appetite like the crocodile, rather they sport insatiable craving for the love and attention of the government of the day. They dance to the whims and caprices of the present government with reckless abandon. INEC left millions of Nigerians with mouths hanging open in unabashed incredulity during the Kano Local Government election. On that day, like cows going to the slaughter slab, some minors were captured on some viral pictures lined up exercising their premature civic responsibility. The denial and counter-denial by the electoral umpire over the development submitting scripts of oblivion and inno...