July 14<\/span><\/span>governorship election in Ekiti State,
\nstakeholders are putting final touches totheir preparations to ensure not
\nonly a hitch-free election but also that thedeserved party wins and
\ncontinue to take the State on an upward projection. Thenews that the
\npolice hierarchy is deploying as much as 30,000 police personnelto Ekiti
\nfor the election is an indication of how seriously our securityagencies
\nare taking the exercise. The only concern here is, why so much numberof
\npolicemen for an election, a civic exercise in a very peaceful State
\nwhileBenue, Plateau and other flashpoints in the country are lacking in
\npolicepersonnel to help stem the growing ugly tide of mass murders we have
\nwitnessedin the country recently? That would be an issue for another day.<\/p>\nHowever, the massive deploymentof police personnel to Ekiti underscores
\nhow seriously various stakeholderstake the forthcoming election. It is the
\npenultimate election before the 2019general elections with the Osun
\ngovernorship election standing between them,thus, making the Ekiti
\nelection serve as a yardstick for how well variousinstitutions,
\nparticularly INEC, are preparing for the 2019 general elections.It would
\nalso be used to measure INEC\u2019s true independence from influence
\nandpowerful extraneous interests and forces.<\/p>\n
So, in more ways than one, theEkiti election should be of utmost priority
\nnot only to the good people ofEkiti but also to all well meaning Nigerians
\nas it will be a pointer to thetrajectory the 2019 election will take.
\nBeyond these, Ekiti people are going tobe greatest beneficiaries of a
\nfree, fair and transparent election but wouldalso be the worst victims,
\nboth in the short and long terms, should theexercise go wrong and be
\ntainted with irregularities.<\/p>\n
To this end, the peoplethemselves have huge roles to play. By now, it is
\nexpected that the partieswould have done enough in terms of voter
\neducation, much of which must centreon the need for the electorate not to
\nallow themselves to be influenced bymoney or such other fleeting gifts
\nthat might be offered to them by desperatepoliticians to buy their
\nconscience and sway their votes their way.<\/p>\n
It is instructive to note thatthose who have brought hunger to the land
\nmight have deliberately done so inorder to find it easy to induce the
\nelectorates, pauperized by shallow andfailed government policies, during
\nelections.<\/p>\n
It was the mistake people of OndoSate made. Allegations of heavy
\ninducement by critical actors at the November2016 election filled the
\nairwave as it was alleged that the electorates were offeredbetween N1,500
\nand N5,000 for their votes depending on location and importanceof polling
\nareas to those behind the inducement, for the people to vote forthem.<\/p>\n
And, of course, with the level ofhunger in the land, a majority of the
\npeople were said to have grudgingly acceptedthe inducement as a palliative
\nto their hunger, an action which radicallychanged the expected outcome of
\nthe election to favour those who made theoffering to the voters.<\/p>\n
However, what such voters refusedto realize was that they were actually
\nselling away their future and birthrightfor pittance. Just about two years
\nafter a new government took over the seat ofgovernment in Akure, pregnant
\nwomen took to the streets in lamentation, wailingand gnashing of the teeth
\non how the new government had cancelled the freechildbirth policy run by
\nthe previous government which, by the allegedinducement from another
\nparty, was voted out.<\/p>\n
That protest by pregnant women inOndo State was one never witnessed in a
\nlong while in the history of our nationwhere pregnancy is held in high
\nesteem and treated with enormous care. But onthis day, the pregnant women
\nthrew caution to the wind and took to the streetsprotesting the imposition
\nof what they described as exorbitant fees on theirmedical care by the
\nState government. Unfortunately, some of the pregnant womencould have
\nparticipated in the electoral largesse by politicians at the OndoState
\ngovernorship election, voted against their conscience, and a governmentof
\nthe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that had hitherto provided them with
\nfreemedical services.<\/p>\n
When the APC government tookover, the women accused the government of
\nincreasing their ante-natal care feesfrom N1,000 to N4,000, and an
\nimposition of N500 fee for every appointment theyhad at government
\nhospitals, appointments they acknowledged used to be freeunder the PDP-led
\ngovernment of Dr Olusegun Mimiko. The major grouse of theprotesting
\npregnant women was the N25,000 fee imposed on them for normaldelivery, a
\nservice that used to be absolutely free before the November
\n2016governorship election.<\/p>\n
As if taking a cue from thepregnant women, and right about the same
\nperiod, students of Adekunle AjasinUniversity, Akungba Akoko (AAUA) also
\ntook to the streets to demonstrateagainst the hike in fees by the current
\nArakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu-led OndoState government. The fees, according
\nto the protesting students, were hikedfrom N25,000 and N30,000 under the
\nPDP-led government of Dr Olusegun Mimiko tobetween N120,000 and N250,000
\nunder the Akeredolu-led APC government.<\/p>\n
Sadly, some of the students couldalso have partaken in the electoral
\nlargesse politicians threw their way onelection day, and they sold their
\nlong term benefit of having a considerategovernment that cared for them in
\npower for a short term benefit of even meagrecash that would not last them
\nmore than a day or two.<\/p>\n
Long after receiving the pittanceto buy their votes, pregnant women,
\nstudents and other indigenes and residentsof Ondo State are now crying and
\nregretting their mistake.<\/p>\n
As Ekiti governorship electiontakes place, some might have also prepared
\nto replicate the vote buying systemallegedly deployed in Ondo to Ekiti, as
\nthe principal actors allegedly behindthe money-for-vote action have since
\nrelocated to Ekiti to perpetrate the same ignominiousact. The people must
\nresist the temptation of eating sumptuous meals for a dayor two with the
\nmoney they get induced with only for them to be faced with longterm
\nrealities of economic hardship, social dysfunction and draconian
\npoliciesafter having helped put a rudderless government in place.<\/p>\n
The Bible says it is alwaysbetter to eat vegetable where there is love
\nthan to eat meat where there ishate (Proverbs\u00a015:17<\/span><\/span>. Governor Peter
\nAyodele Fayose has proved that he loveshis people; he stood by them in the
\ndarkest hour and prevented the State bygoing the bloody ways of Plateau,
\nBenue, Nasarawa, Zamafara et al when hebraved the odds and against a
\ndangerous tide, signed the anti-open grazing billinto law. The people must
\nallow themselves to be guided by their conscience. NoState deserves to add
\nto itself the enormous suffering and hardship imposed onNigerians by the
\nAPC-led federal government. that would amount to doublejeopardy!<\/p>\nThey should remember that theirvote is their right, their power and should
\nnot be exchanged for any filthylucre that commits them into a world of
\npaid silence in the face ofmaladministration. They must be vigilant and
\nensure that those who have playeda part in dragging the entire nation into
\nits current comatose state of anomiewhere insecurity, unemployment,
\nflagrant abuse of citizens\u2019 rights, selectiveobedience of court orders,
\neconomic hardship etc have become the lot ofNigerians, do not have a
\nfoothold in Ekiti.<\/p>\n
It was the same mistake Nigerianshad made earlier that the people of Ondo
\nState made at their last governorshipelection, hence, they suffer double
\ntragedy as policies of their stategovernment do not appear people-oriented
\nor friendly thereby giving room foravoidable demonstrations, coupled with
\nthe obvious ineptitude exhibited at thecentre.<\/p>\n
Almost all the states that madethe same mistake Nigeria made at the last
\npresidential election in 2015 wherethe current ruling party was voted to
\npower are in one form of turmoil or theother today. From Benue to Zamfara
\nto Nasarawa to Kaduna, to Adamawa etc, theirpeople are now wailing in
\nregret. The people of Ekiti have enough examples tolearn from that they
\nhave no excuse whatsoever to make the same mistake othersbefore them made
\nonly for such people to turn around in regret and startdemonstrating
\nshortly after.<\/p>\n
The people must vote for theparty that has not only spoken against the
\ninvasion of their state by maraudingand murderous herdsmen terrorists but
\nhas demonstrated enormous capacity andthe needed political will to protect
\nthem from the mass murderers and preventthe same orgy of killings in other
\nstates from happening in Ekiti despitemounting pressure to do otherwise.
\nThey must not make themselves open to thetemptation of mints and other
\nitems of inducement no matter how attractive, orelse they will be exposing
\nthemselves to immediate danger and their children toa future of
\nuncertainty.<\/p>\n
Apart from attempting to inducethe people with cash and other items, the
\npeople should also beware of thosewho come to them with flattery, vain
\neloquence and empty promises. SomeNigerians allowed all these to sway them
\nin 2015 and today, we are allsuffering because of it. Ekiti people must
\nprove that they are not as gullible.They should know by now those who made
\npromises but could not keep them ratherthey have driven the country to a
\nstate far worse than they met her; suchpeople promise paradise but what
\nthey actually carry in their bosom fordelivery is hell. Ekiti people must
\nwatch out for such people. They must notallow themselves to be intimidated
\nor hoodwinked by any means to look away fromguarding their votes from the
\npolling units to the final collation centre. Itis a battle for the soul of
\nthe State, and vigilance is the ultimate price forsafety.<\/p>\n
Will they be intimidated? Yes,the intimidation has already begun? But
\nEkitikete must stand their ground;Ekiti must not be sold or handed over to
\nthose who have proved that they meanno good with their rudderless
\nperformance at the centre.<\/p>\n
Those who are deployed to theState for one assignment or the other whether
\nas security officials, INECofficials, observers, pressmen etc, must ensure
\nthat they carry out theirduties with utmost sense of patriotism and not
\ncooperate or participate in anyattempt to rob the people of their
\nelectoral choice. The eventual outcome ofthe election must reflect the
\npeople\u2019s voice and will. This is the least thatthese and other
\nstakeholders owe not only the people of Ekiti State but alsoNigerians,
\nand, indeed, the entire world.<\/p>\n
As the clock ticks towards D-Day,it is imperative to remind voters of the
\nlocal proverb which says that when thefrog in front jumps into a deep
\nhole, it teaches the other ones behind alesson. Ekiti people must learn
\nfrom the costly mistake Nigeria made in 2015and avoid same on July 14.
\nThis is the least they owe themselves and posterity.They should allow
\nsound judgement based on history and good conscience guidetheir choice at
\nthe election.<\/p>\n
—jrndukwe@yahoo.co.uk<\/a>; Twitter:@stjudendukwe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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