By Anthony Akinola
Quite a number of
Nigerians are politically aware, even if their level of political participation
hardly goes beyond voting in an election. They could be heard taking sides at
election time, arguing vociferously as to why they would support one candidate
against another. My recent visit to beloved Nigeria, coinciding with the Ekiti
gubernatorial election of June 14, 2018, reinforced my insight into the
thinking of the locals as to the possible direction of their votes in the
election.
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| *President Buhari |
At the highly-impressive Afe Babalola
University, Ado-Ekiti, I
encountered a local chief and another lady visitor to the institution who talk
animatedly about how they would rather vote for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), than that of the rival All Progressives Congress (APC). In
praising Aare Afe Babalola for founding a university that has provided job
opportunities for hundreds of Nigerians, they said Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the APC
would rather build his own university in Ghana,
providing jobs for the people of Ghana instead of Nigerians.
