𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝖀𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝕱𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝕻𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄.
~ 𝐂𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝐍𝖌𝖔𝖟𝖎 𝐀𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊
Imagine Standing Patiently In Line, Waiting To Vote, And Suddenly Men With Guns Arrive On Motorcycles And Start Shooting.
Imagine Men Dashing Into Your Polling Unit, Violently Seizing Ballot Boxes And Taking Them Away.
Imagine Other Ballot Boxes Being Destroyed.
Imagine Being Beaten To Keep You From Voting For A Particular Candidate.
Imagine A Crowd Of People Chanting “We Must Vote! We Must Vote!” When Polling Workers Failed To Arrive As Expected.
Imagine The Police Doing Very Little. All These Things Happened During The Nigerian Presidential Elections On Saturday, February 25, 2023.

Through It All, There Was A Chilling Lack Of Transparency From The Independent National Electoral Commission, Or I.N.E.C., Which Oversees Elections.

Nigerian Elections Have A History Of Being Rigged, Of Cooked-Up Numbers And Stolen Ballot Boxes. This Time, Though, Nigerians Were Asked To Place Their Faith In A New Electronic Voting System That Would Make Tampering More Difficult. Technology Would Be The Savior: In Each Polling Unit, Votes Would Be Counted In The presence of Voters And Then Immediately Uploaded To A Secure Central Portal. Failing To Upload The Results In Real Time Was The Most Egregious Of The Many irregularities Of This Election Because It Has Destroyed The Cautious Trust With Which Many Approached The Process.

The I.N.E.C. Blames Technical Issues For The Delay. How, Nigerians Wonder, Can A Well-Funded Electoral Body That Had Four Years To Prepare For An Important Presidential Election Make Such A Significant Blunder? It Is Reasonable, Then, That Many Voters Have Assumed Purposeful Intent, That Election Workers Were Instructed Not To Upload Results So That They Could Later Be Secretly Manipulated.

I Know Nigeria, The Country Of My Birth, Intimately. I Know The Political Culture, Where The Exchange Of Large Amounts Of Money Makes So Many People Conscience-Deficient, Where The Mainstream Media’s Instinct Is Political Deference And Where The Will Of The People Is Often Ignored. Nigerians, Especially Young Nigerians, Are Determined That This Time, Their Votes Will Matter. A Majority Of Nigerians Are Below The Age Of 35. They Are A Bright, Innovative And Talented Generation, A Hungry Generation, Starved Of Good Leadership, Who Do Not Merely Sit Back And Complain But Who Act And Push Back And Want To Forge Their Own Futures.

On Saturday, Many Went Out To Vote, Enthusiastic But Cautious, Their Phone Cameras Ready To Record Any Irregularities. They Waited For Election Workers Who Arrived Many Hours Late To Polling Stations. They Braved The Harassment And Beatings Of Men Paid To Create Chaos. They Went Off And Bought Their Own Ink For Finger-Printing When Election Workers Claimed To Have Run Out Of It. They Provided Their Own Light From Their Phones As They Stood In Line In The Dark, And According To One Recorded Case, A Voter Brought A Small Generator To A Polling Place When The Voting Machine Stopped Working. They Refused To Leave Even Though They Had To Wait So Long That It Was Almost Dawn When They Could Finally Vote. And When It Began To Rain, They Came Together And Sang Beautiful Songs. I Have Never Been So Proud Of My Fellow Nigerians. Many Were Voting For The First Time, Inspired By One Candidate, Peter Obi, Who Has Brought To Them That Ineffable Thing That We Humans Need To Thrive: Hope.

Now, As Results Are Being Counted, There Is Growing Disillusionment. A Sludge Of Tension Is In The Air. A Simmering Rage. Some Voters Say That The Official Numbers Trickling In Do Not Match The Numbers From Their Polling Units, That The Results Tell A Story Different From What They Witnessed On Saturday. They Are Convinced Of The Complicity Of Those Who Should Be Caretakers Of The Democratic Process.

Elections Must Always Be Transparent, Of Course, But For An Abysmally Low-Trust Society Like Nigeria, A Radical Transparency Is Needed For Credibility. Elections Must Be Completely Transparent And Must Be Widely Seen To Be Completely Transparent; Sadly, Neither Seems To Apply To Nigeria’s Presidential Election.

African Democracies Are Ccriticized, Often Condescendingly So, In Ways That Stoke Resentment, Not Because The Criticism Isn’t Valid, But Because It Isn’t Fair. Africa Is Full Of Young Nation-States, And Democracy Takes Time To Establish Its Roots, And Even When It Does, The Fragility Always Remains.

I’ve Always Found It Curious That African Countries Were Expected To Form Functioning Democracies Right After Independence, Even Though The Colonial Governments They Had Only Just Freed Themselves From Were Dictatorships In Everything But Name.

Nigerians Want A Functioning Democracy, And They Are Starting On The Path To It But Might Be Derailed Unless The International Community Pays Attention Now.

Nigeria Is Africa’s Tottering Giant, The Continent’s Most Populous Country, The Most Politically And Culturally Dominant. To Pay Real Attention To Nigeria Is To Signal That Africa Matters, As The United States Has Always Maintained. The Biden Administration Needs To Stand Behind The Nigerian People Now And Make A Firm Commitment To Support Election Transparency. Besides — My Tongue Is Lodged In My Cheek — You Don’t Want A Wave Of Nigerian Asylum Seekers Fleeing The Unbearable Discontent Of Living Under An Illegitimate Government.

Sometimes Democracies Are Threatened By Foreign Invasions And Sometimes Democracies Are Most At Risk From Internal Forces. All Of Them Need Support.


A DIRGE
1. After A Presidential Election In Any Nation, There Is Usually Spontaneous Eruption Of Joy Nationwide

2. After The Announcement Of TINUBU As The Winner, Only The Dead Are Celebrating.

3. In The Land Of The Living, There Is Mourning, Sorrow, Amazement! From Taxi Drivers To Okada Riders, To Market Women, To Corporate Executives, To Housewives To Preachers.

4. There Is No Celebration In Lagos. None In Rivers. None in Sokoto. None In Taraba. None In Ogun. None In Delta. None In The FCT.

5. So, Who Voted For TINUBU ?

NOBODY!

Only The Manufacturers Of The BVAS In Far Away India

6. There Is The Peace Of The Graveyard All Over Nigeria!

7. May Our Victories In life And Death Give Both The Living And The Dead Cause For Celebration!

~ 𝐂𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝐍𝖌𝖔𝖟𝖎 𝐀𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊: (Published in New York Times on Feb. 28, 2023

Because of Eluu pi right?

You coward, you are abroad talking nonsense.

𝐌𝐘 REGION 𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝕱𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝕻𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄.
~ 𝐂𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝐍𝖌𝖔𝖟𝖎 𝐀𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊
Imagine Waking up on monday morning waiting for customers at your shop, And Suddenly Men With Guns Arrive On Motorcycles And Start Shooting.

Clearly this IPOB gal does not know how BVAS works. Chiamanda, you have your PU agents in all the 176K PUs. Now, the results are available for EVERYONE to see. Check the results given to you by your PU agents and compare with the results posted by INEC. If there is enough descrepancy to swing the election in your favor, then go to court and contest.

The truth is Obi lost fair and square. And you're only writing all these nonsense because you know it.

Funny, in your useless IPOBIC write up. You refused to mention how APC voters were threatened in SE Nigeria and prevented from voting. Funny, in Nigeria ONLY Ibos are saints, the rest of us are the evil ones. Nonsense!

My brothers this woman is an Ipob sympathizer

This girl no go sense I swear. For the umpteenth time , she has to remind foreigners that Nigeria is a shiitt country .As if we do not already know.She has the platform to maybe change the mentality of her ethnic group and preach southern unity. Nope . She remains on that narrow tribal view . Why do some people seek validation from foreigner by trashing their own country?

Mind you , the USA where she is writing this junk from has 3 million of her citizens (most of them black and other minorities) in prison and surgically disenfranchised with no voting rights. Many for minor offences.
Tens of millions more cannot vote after serving the prison sentences .
Do not forget that the elections are also held on Tuesday (a working day ) ,a day when a working poor person ( likely black or minority) would not likely be able to afford to take the day off to vote.

Make this one dey talk anyhow from far away USA

We wait for Supreme Court patiently..

That certificate will be return na time

Time ..

E go catch fire .. that fire wey dem Dey blow.. e go catch.. and dem no go believe am..

Funny Nigerians go pour fuel and AGO to make it burn .unfortunately for those blowing it .. northern nigeria will watch from sidelines .. just like international community

But e go happen

We wait for Supreme Court .. respecting the peace pact ..

You can scheme all you want. The universe knows how to balance energies.

Her hand is always heavy to write when it comes to the 10th deadliest terrorist group in the world that has become a parallel govt in her region. Hypocritical slowpokes.

Putindbutt:
Her hand is always heavy to write when it comes to the 10th deadliest terrorist group in the world that has become a parallel govt in her region. Hypocritical slowpokes.

They haven’t inflicted enough trauma that will cause the type of outcry white liberals can buy into.

She’s a hustler that exploits Igbo trauma - to sell to white liberals, with her pedestrian writing skills. And white liberals’ schtick is sellable black trauma. Give her time - she will speak on it when it gets to that level.

DodadaKoKigbe:
Clearly this IPOB gal does not know how BVAS works. Chiamanda, you have your PU agents in all the 176K PUs. Now, the results are available for EVERYONE to see. Check the results given to you by your PU agents and compare with the results posted by INEC. If there is enough descrepancy to swing the election in your favor, then go to court and contest.

The truth is Obi lost fair and square. And you're only writing all these nonsense because you know it.

Funny, in your useless IPOBIC write up. You refused to mention how APC voters were threatened in SE Nigeria and prevented from voting. Funny, in Nigeria ONLY Ibos are saints, the rest of us are the evil ones. Nonsense!

You fight with Tinubu agberos we fight you with our brains and pens.....bring it on. Tinubu will see the real intelligence in the common Nigerian. Your wicked criminality will not see daylight!

Creeper:


They haven’t inflicted enough trauma that will cause the type of outcry white liberals can buy into.

She’s a hustler that exploits Igbo trauma - to sell to white liberals, with her pedestrian writing skills. And white liberals’ schtick is sellable black trauma. Give her time - she will speak on it when it gets to that level.

Keep spewing your hate but Tinubu will never rule Nigeria. You must win the people over to rule over them in a true democracy. You are clearly the aggressor and the international community can see it. You rigged a sick drug criminal and thought you will prevail....lies !

Tinubu disgrace is building up....this is the new Nigeria we want to build

IDENNAA:
You fight with Tinubu agberos we fight you with our brains and pens.....bring it on. Tinubu will see the real intelligence in the common Nigerian. Your wicked criminality will not see daylight!

Bia, if Obasanjo's letter could not save peter giringory from coming distant 3rd then Chiamanda the IPOB queen's letter will have ZERO effect.

South East is a deadly zone! Write about IPOB, Terrorism? Backwardness and death in South East if true true you get mind.

IDENNAA:


Keep spewing your hate but Tinubu will never rule Nigeria. You must win the people over to rule over them in a true democracy. You are clearly the aggressor and the international community can see it. You rigged a sick drug criminal and thought you will prevail....lies !

Tinubu disgrace is building up....this is the new Nigeria we want to build

Lol, you clearly don’t know what “aggressor” means in international law.

Indigenous people are protected by UN charter on their lands and they can’t be the “aggressor” when defending it, against brutish invaders. Only Yorubas are indigenous to the SW and they have a right to protect it by any means necessary.

Go focus on the region you’re indigenous to and stay out of Yoruba internal affairs. The obnoxious victim mentality is dead.

In all this, I see this as a wake up call for Ndigbo who still have small sense left in him.
It's time we build our land and make it a city of our dream instead of investing heavily in other ppls land.
We are developing Abuja now too and have bought almost 50% of the landed properties too.
Very soon, Abuja indigens will still remind us to go back to our village as they call it.
We need to think home ụmụnnem.
Nigeria is not ONE and can never be ONE.
Let's build our home.

The fight is a southern fight north dey look dey laff.

By the way, some nairalanders i read, structures their grammar way better than this over-hyped author.

2mch:
South East is a deadly zone! Write about IPOB, Terrorism? Backwardness and death in South East if true true you get mind.

You are so dumb and evil.
Tribalism have blinded you and I pray it remains permanent in ur life.

Now aside Lagos which is so because it was formal capital of Nigeria for more than 30yrs, which other South West will u compare to Eastern states?
Oyo and Enugu?
Ekiti and Ebonyi?
Ondo and Imo?
Ogun and Abia?
And never forget that East rose from war torn region to rebuild this cities from scratch again after your ancestors refused Igbos from ceding because it's clear that Igbos doesn't need Nigeria to prosper unlike hypocrites like you that can't do without Igbos and still can't let Igbos stay in peace.
I wish bigots like you pai~nful excruciating dea~th.
Idio~ts.

Young042galaxy:

You are so dumb and evil.
Tribalism have blinded you and I pray it remains permanent in ur life.
No tribe holds n curse its leaders in Nigeria than the Igbos.
We beat them abroad when they visit, una go still antagonize Igbos for beating their bad leaders abroad, if we use hash words on them, una go still say we don't respect our elders.
What do urchins like you want from Igbos?
Atleast we fought gallantly this year and retired many of the evil leaders in East even though some still rigged their way in, haven't it proven that Igbos doesn't worship bad leaders like you people?



Now aside Lagos which is so because it was formal capital of Nigeria for more than 30yrs, which other South West will u compare to Eastern states?
Oyo and Enugu?
Ekiti and Ebonyi?
Ondo and Imo?
Ogun and Abia?
And never forget that East rose from war torn region to rebuild this cities from scratch again after your ancestors refused Igbos from ceding because it's clear that Igbos doesn't need Nigeria to prosper unlike hypocrites like you that can't do without Igbos and still can't let Igbos stay in peace.
I wish bigots like you pai~nful excruciating dea~th.
Idio~ts.

South East is a dead zone and as unstable as any zone that is facing terrorism in the North. You shameless cretin. You have mind yo insult people when your states are empty because of hunger and insecurity and 90% of the men who built those empty houses you call development are in prison awaiting death in Asia. If you quote me again, you will be victims of IPOB.

Let yours tribalistic author think how to solve the problems South East is facing. Nigeria is not fragile only South East is a bloody nuisance to the whole world. She should stop calling Nigeria and face her State if she will not be caught when she comes home and killed like a rat in the street. Mad people. You people think like your sense is under your shoe. A whole IPOB killed Akunyili’s husband like an animal in the middle of the street but Lagos and Nigeria is your biggest issue. Nuisances.

Creeper:


Lol, you clearly don’t know what “aggressor” means in international law.

Indigenous people are protected by UN charter on their lands and they can’t be the “aggressor” when defending it, against brutish invaders. Only Yorubas are indigenous to the SW and they have a right to protect it by any means necessary.

Go focus on the region you’re indigenous to and stay out of Yoruba internal affairs. The obnoxious victim mentality is dead.

Why are you telling about IPOB? Did IPOB tell you to rig in a criminal? No! So stop wasting my time

Young042galaxy:

You are so dumb and evil.
Tribalism have blinded you and I pray it remains permanent in ur life.

Now aside Lagos which is so because it was formal capital of Nigeria for more than 30yrs, which other South West will u compare to Eastern states?
Oyo and Enugu?
Ekiti and Ebonyi?
Ondo and Imo?
Ogun and Abia?
And never forget that East rose from war torn region to rebuild this cities from scratch again after your ancestors refused Igbos from ceding because it's clear that Igbos doesn't need Nigeria to prosper unlike hypocrites like you that can't do without Igbos and still can't let Igbos stay in peace.
I wish bigots like you pai~nful excruciating dea~th.
Idio~ts.

I can bet that Ogun state alone has a higher industrial output than all Southeast states combined

Civetcat:


I can bet that Ogun state alone has a higher industrial output than all Southeast states combined

Not even Ogun, Ekiti . All they have is assembly and importation. They boast because they know no one goes to that dead zone so they can’t burst their lies.

She is an American During US election, she votes but during Nigerian election , she sends in lamentations. US is truly in a fragile place in economy and proxy war with Russia and China

IDENNAA:


Why are you telling about IPOB? Did IPOB tell you to rig in a criminal? No! So stop wasting my time

I think you’re dealing with a strange strain of functional mental retardation. Not shocking since it’s typical.

Obi is the bigger criminal - no amount of whitewashing and pandering to gullible, gormless sheeple can change that. BTW, rigging is normal practice in all elections in Nigeria and Obi is just as culpable as the rest. The game is the game.

Obi’s Linsanity run is over - suck it in and move on. And stay out of the internal affairs of Yorubas. Focus on your desolate pigsty region.

2mch:

South East is a dead zone and as unstable as any zone that is facing terrorism in the North. You shameless cretin. You have mind yo insult people when your states are empty because of hunger and insecurity and 90% of the men who built those empty houses you call development are in prison awaiting death in Asia. If you quote me again, you will be victims of IPOB.

Let yours tribalistic author think how to solve the problems South East is facing. Nigeria is not fragile only South East is a bloody nuisance to the whole world. She should stop calling Nigeria and face her State if she will not be caught when she comes home and killed like a rat in the street. Mad people. You people think like your sense is under your shoe. A whole IPOB killed Akunyili’s husband like an animal in the middle of the street but Lagos and Nigeria is your biggest issue. Nuisances.

You ended up not saying anything instead of ur hate filled bigotry.
I stay in Enugu and live far better life than you and your entire generations.
My village here is far more developed than some of ur state capital in South West.
The problem with bigot urchins like you is that they don't leave their dirty house to explore and enjoy nature God created.

You claim East is empty?
But Main market onitsha is the biggest market in West Africa.
Ariaria Market is 3rd biggest market in West Africa.

Like I said, pls compare Abakaliki to Ado Ekiti
Ibadan and Enugu.
Osogbo and Umuahia.
Abeokuta to Onitsha.
Akure to Owerri.


Until you do so, stfu and keep dying painfully in ur hate cos I so enjoy it when bigots like you die slowly and miserably.

2mch:

Not even Ogun, Ekiti . All they have is assembly and importation. They boast because they know no one goes to that dead zone so they can’t burst their lies.

Common be serious .Anambra has some potential that if you put a proper Lagos style structure ,you will begin to see serious potential.
That is why many of us were scratching our head with the Peter Obi hype. A very mediocre governor who governed the state during the oil boom and has next to nothing to show for it apart from a collapsed brewery and a mall he built for himself In Abuja.

Civetcat:


I can bet that Ogun state alone has a higher industrial output than all Southeast states combined

Yes I agree it does.
And it's cos of its closeness to Lagos.
But still, it's not more developed than any Eastern state.
And East still have biggest Markets than all in West including Lagos.
I have been to Abeokuta and it's far below Owerri talk more of Enugu.
So what's the point having such industries yet no good housing or well planned cities?

Anyone with the name Chidi or Chinedu is not a Nigerian, he or she is a Biafran and is not recognised as a Nigerian.

Young042galaxy:

Yes I agree it does.
And it's cos of its closeness to Lagos.
But still, it's not more developed than any Eastern state.
And East still have biggest Markets than all in West including Lagos.
I have been to Abeokuta and it's far below Owerri talk more of Enugu.
So what's the point having such industries yet no good housing or well planned cities?

What do you think the is meaning of development ?
Go to your dictionary or Wikipedia and come back . Development is not just some buildings that only a few people can afford.Most people look the on the icing on the cake .The cake itself is the development. In fact the main determinant of development is the commons.