2023 election issues: Opposition can bring free, fair in future elections

Hon. Emma Chidi Ofoegbu

The natural political order of Nigeria shows that the Nigeria that currently exists is the son of colonists. Like a child who was jointly given birth to, by a woman that met many men during pregnancy.

The injection of mixed, pure, and adulterated blood into the making systems, will inevitably bring about sundry disorders in the makeup of the child.

This is the nature of Nigeria today.

The Nigeria of today is worse than anything that existed during the colonial dispensation. The colonists at least organized Nigeria to be working, while they looted and plundered our natural resources to develop their countries. In the present dispensation, particularly since 2015, when Mohammad Buhari and his vicious and violent group blackmailed Goodluck Jonathan out of office, Nigeria has gone so down that corruption is the only thing that has life in the Nigerian political order.

It’s the government officials, that are sending the looted funds to the colonists after independence, and currently in their countries; while they made sure such corrupt governments that rigged themselves into the presidencies, are quickly congratulated, recognized, and given red carpet treatments, and excellent leadership awards in their countries. Openly rejecting the reports of the international election observers which they sent to monitor the conduct of the elections and the processes that threw up the person that was declared the winner.

It should be noted slavery, colonialism, racism, and other related ideologies and propensities associated with the dehumanization of Africans, and sundry exploitative and additive criminality, didn’t stop deliberately in America, Europe, or other climes that made exploitation and oppression of other people their culture. They were violently forced to change their hostile and criminal way of life by the oppressed, through fighting back, attacking, killing, and poisoning their oppressors.

Those who were benefitting from the man’s inhumanity to man did not stop their caustic dispositions policies, and propensities, they only changed the format, tactics, strategy, semantics, styles, and language, while still carrying out their heinous businesses of looting, plundering, and killing everyone that stands on their way. The way it was during their violent invasion period.

Democracy seems to be the trendy political concept, that can safely accommodate whatever options colonial capitalists are interested in particularly, the aspect that facilitates illicit financial flows (IFFs) from Africa, particularly from (Nigeria) to the western hemispheres.

Nigerian democracy, particularly the type we saw in the 2023 election that produced Bola Tinubu as president, is a ‘weed ‘, that must not be allowed to grow in any farm settlement.

To achieve this, the opposition groups/parties must insist on a referendum. Restructuring is like trying to repeat the,2023 election as conducted in Nigeria, particularly Lagos State. And where attacking and killing of Igbos were freely encouraged by Mohammad Buhari, APC Leaders, and Yoruba Obas, in connivance with the Nigerian security agents, particularly, the Nigerian Police Force.

Under Mohammad Buhari, how many people who committed those atrocities in Lagos state against Igbos, were arrested or tried for murder? So he inadvertently encouraged ethnic cleansing during elections in Nigeria, southwest, particularly in Lagos state against Igbos. A conspiracy that can lead to another ethnic war in Nigeria like the Nigeria- Biafra war of 1966-1970.

The failure of the opposition parties, to insist on a referendum to uproot the structures that will cause more problems during elections in Nigeria, including wars, will encourage the indigenous people to insist and resort to self-determination, so that they can create a better country that is truly democratic, peaceful and progressive.

For the inevitability, change must continue no matter how dictators and abusers of power fight/fight to stop it.

This is a natural order which can’t be altered.

Hon. Ofoegbu is a columnist, researcher, and writer /Secretary, Azubuike Emmanuel Umeadi Campaign Council, Labour Party House of Representative, Alimosho Federal Constituency, Lagos State.