By Tonnie Iredia
Many analysts who felt they could explain away the poor conduct of the 2019 elections ended up making two irritating statements; first that the nation’s electoral body did not have a server and second that even if there was one, it was not put into use. Considering that it was public knowledge that INEC was funded to get a server, the narrative could have sent the nation ablaze, but it did not.
In 2023, INEC’s claim that a glitch adversely affected only one out of 3 elections that were simultaneously conducted should have led to massive violent reactions as it used to be in Nigeria, but again it did not. It is however naïve to imagine that Nigerians have suddenly become dumb or that the unusual post-election calm has now established the emergence of a new political culture.
