THE INSANITY OF THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN ABIA STATE

By: Nwabunwanne David (Abia Writers)

Edited by Chidi Aloysius Nwosu

The foolish ones are insensitive, playfully accept everything they see but the wise ones think through and go mad over unrighteousness and cheating. It is unacceptable for every activity that was unscrupulously believed and carried out as acceptable democratic tenets and norms by the foolish ones and which portrayed as sabotage to the broader sacred interest of the wise in Abia state gubernatorial election that was held on the 9th March 2019 in Abia State. It was egocentric, barbaric and should be condemned to hell.

On Umule hall, one Mr Buchi who was the party agent of PDP was seditious. He paid off other party agents, carried the ballot boxes into one room with only PDP party agents, and after some minutes came out with full exuberance, shook hands with other party agents. A wide margin of defeat was recorded with great accomplishment, and other parties were beaten, and the people’s will was truncated. I shook my head and asked, when will the real will of the people, ever be represented in Abia State in particular and Biafraland in general. Instead, they upset the people with continuous grievous election results with enormous rigging? When will we ever see good leaders that will undoubtedly represent the people's mandate in our land? In fact, we are in a greater mess.

In Ekwulumiri hall, was another merciless nightmare. At Ward 3, polling booth 15 and 16, where there was a low turn out of voters, party agents of PDP and APC were seen buying votes from the few voters who showed up. After the proper voting, the party agents of APC and PDP were seen thumb printing on the ballot papers as a sort of vote sharing which may be per the amount of money provided to the INEC officers in charge at the polling station.

In summary, there was great rigging through sharing of votes within the agents of PDP and APC, which amounts to a massive or complete breakdown of electoral rules and laws. It is paradoxical to the democratic tenets, repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience of the masses. Everything about the election is a hoax and unrealistic, as one could see. A Young man on the other day said that we are doomed forever, and I asked myself, what do you expect the young man to say? Haven't we suffered for several decades, still going backwards not even being static, but still on experimental process. 

It will be awful and irredeemable if there is no total freedom of Biafra nation. It will make us carcasses made for the Vulture to be devoured at will. The aggravated assault on the sensibility of the people by the outcome of this fraudulent election and country we have found ourselves in is a vicious circle through robbing Peter to pay Paul and here we are. Where do we go from here?