ELECTION AFTER RESULT

Interestingly, this just concluded local government poll reminded me of the nature of the Nigerian election, coincidentally it was the same old story, an unserious fellow had earlier presented the situation in a satirical joke some few weeks back, the joke according to him goes thus;

Four men from America, Japan, Germany and Nigeria were arguing about the speed with which election results get released in their respective countries. The man from Japan started, “ in my country, we have put in place such technology that makes it possible for the masses to know the result of our election within forty-eight hours of voting” while he was confidently making his submission, the remaining three young could not help but laugh. Curiously, he demanded to know what unanimously amused them but the German man answered, “ my friend, this is 21^st century  if you have to still wait for 48 hours, to get election result then you are not of this generation, in my country, the result get released just within twenty four hours of the poll” the American man could no longer tolerate these outdated methods that are being glorified as modern technology, so he screamed, can I have your attention for a moment!,  suddenly there was silence, they all wanted to hear what he has to say,  so he began “with all due respect friends, I  have not heard real technology all along, in my country, while the vote is on, there is a computerised system that makes it possible for the people to monitor the result simultaneously via television, that my friends is what I call technology in action.

They all looked surprised save for the Nigerian man who motioned with his hand signifying that he has something to say and from all indication, it is something different from what they have all said but in amazement of the American technology, the Japanese and the German cannot help but chorused “what again do you have to say, the American has spoken, case closed” no, capital no, that is a lie from the pit of hell” he replied. For your information, he continued, in Nigeria, we don’t wait till the election before we get the result, we determine the result before election, we only vote to confirm our result and trust me, our technology has never failed. They all asked, how possible, good, thank you very much, the mathematics is simple, we determine if our answer is going to be 5.  Then we now consider our variables whether or not they are compatible with the result is nobody’s business, in fact the available variables could be 1 and 1 but remember that even if you add that 1+1 it must give you our preconceived 5, this technology device is called ‘DO OR DIE’.

If you don’t believe this sincere Nigerian boy, at least you heard about the recent INEC disclosure that 1, 338 direct data capture machine (DDCM) for the concluded election were stolen from the centre store in its Lagos office.  According to INEC, the figure was part of the total 9,450 DCMs allocated to Lagos state for the voters registration. Apart from the machines, the commission also recorded that computer hard disks were stolen along with about 664 computer batteries.

Well, some say the enemy has done this but i say those who have the capacity to determine election result before it is finally out must have done this. No wonder the result of the Local government poll in Badagry is still generating a lot of controversy, while some reports are saying that ACN has won all the seats in Lagos state, another conflicting report is saying that ACN lost Badagry and Lagos Island. Whatever is the true report, i am concern about why the state is hiding the result from the masses and the leaving the community into a prospective chaos.

You know what i think, i think some people have seen the result before the election and the election seems to be contradicting the envisaged result but you know the Nigerian system, they will stop at nothing until this 1+1=5.