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2015 elections : The card reader and ballot box ‘stuffing’

2015 elections : The card reader and ballot box ‘stuffing’

In 2003 we had elections and I happened to be in Orodo, my home town. I opted to observe rather than vote. The polling booth beside my house was quiet and all seemed to be going well until two young men ‘swooped’ on the officials with cutlasses and snatched the ballot box.

The men around Buhari: Ballast or  Albatross ?

The men around Buhari: Ballast or Albatross ?

A tree does not make a forest and the forest that APC must be , must consist of all sorts of trees.
However, as they say, when the head is rotten then the fish is rotten. Buhari’s performance, if elected , will depend on his personal attributes , the men around him and the institutions they are able to foster but much more on the mission he elects to undertake. He must have a clear mission.