By Tony Eluemunor
First the betrayal: President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), without being prompted by anyone, repeatedly promised Nigerians a free and fair election in February 2023. Buhari promised that a transparent 2023 election would be his legacy project.
Yet, what happened? Local and international observers have derided both Nigeria and the elections. Both Buhari and the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu knew that giving Nigeria a flawless general election was doable. They knew that the money projected to meet the logistics that would make the poll transparent was duly budgeted for and the monies were made available to the electoral agency. The computing systems that would make it possible to upload results real time, and so deny election riggers the opportunity of cooking the figures at the so-called collating centres, were bought and designed. The right laws were in place.
