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After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 17, 2007 - 03:34 AM
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This discussion is at http://projects.takingitglobal.org/YES-Nigeria/discuss/thread/22161
but Ive moved it here to reach more people. Pam
Much has been said about the do or die attitudes, the lack of focus on real issues, and personality cults of the participants in this years electoral race. Various initiatives to engage electoral aspirants at all levels were pursued. In my humble opinion I never got the impression that 99% of these initiatives actually made any impression on aspirants that were battling being banned by INEC, thugs, and traitors.. Most aspirants seemed to be concerned with fighting on a personal rather than issue based level and securing enough money for elections. I heard all the usual I will give electricity, roads, and of course the much used JOBS FOR THE YOUTH. With the execption of Pat Utomi (this is not a campaign) I did not hear HOW these things would be achieved. Come May 29 2007 a new administration will be sworn in. When the dust clears we must get our thoughts through to them. If you had a chance to speak to your president(Governor, Senator etc) what would you reccommend he/she does to better this country and ensure employment? Dream big! Speak your mind.
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Re: After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 17, 2007 - 07:20 AM
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nigeria will still remain the same, if you consider the money spent by INEC, sometimes was criticised by the national assenble but the president in his 'do or die' manner still approved such amount which could reduce poverty by atleast 1%, even when the process on satuaday 14th April was a usual manual.
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Re: After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 17, 2007 - 03:23 PM
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SAMBO1 wrote:
nigeria will still remain the same, if you consider the money spent by INEC, sometimes was criticised by the national assenble but the president in his 'do or die' manner still approved such amount which could reduce poverty by atleast 1%, even when the process on satuaday 14th April was a usual manual.
It was crazy. I actually acted as an observer. I never saw one result sheet. Not one. My concern is after all this how do we reach into the skulls of these people an move on? There will be long drawn out court cases from all I can see so far but at the end we have no where to move to (at least I dont) so what do we do?
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Re: After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 22, 2007 - 10:44 AM
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The painful reality is that after the elections, nothing would happen. That is, despite the individual and public outcry against the sharp practices that marked the 2007 elections, the powers that be would move on as if nothing happened.
Just yesterday the presidential election was held; at the polling booth in front of my house, election materials arrived at 6pm. For an election that was supposed to start by 10am, the commencement time really speak volumes of the seriousness of INEC.
But any time from now we would be hearing results and the pooling booth in front of my house may record ten thousand voters or more.
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Re: After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 25, 2007 - 02:59 AM
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desiyke wrote:
......at the polling booth in front of my house, election materials arrived at 6pm. For an election that was supposed to start by 10am, ......
But any time from now we would be hearing results and the pooling booth in front of my house may record ten thousand voters or more. LOL
Na so we see am.... I think we are so toughened. Is there any way to get move on.... how can we get them to do what they should.... The courts will be busy sorting out matters and thats where all grieviances should go. My thinking is WHAT NEXT!
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Re: After the Nigerian 2007 elections.... then what?
April 28, 2007 - 12:11 AM
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The 2007 elections came and gone with its short-comings - late arrival of ballot papers, alleged riggings, snatching of ballot papers, killings, attempted assassinations, absence of candidate pictures on the ballot, non-display of Party's logo on the ballot papers, disenfranchising people just merged to Nigeria from Cameroon, lack of adequate information, which is part of the growing process. However, nothing planned by human being is expected to be perfect. Nigerian 2007 election is a learning process and part of the development. The registration of voters that produced voters list is a good beginning.
All Presidential candidates did all they could in the exercise and the results tell the remaining story. Nigerians should congratulate them for their efforts. The winner as I predicted, Yar'Adua won by 24,638,063 votes, with a distance follow by ANPP 6,605,299 and AC with 2,637,848. It is a process. There will be more analysis of the Presidential elections later. Losers should take the sportsmanship route and support the winner.
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