You cannot ignore the voices around the country calling for INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, to be imprisoned.
The tension across breakfast, lunch, and dinner tables all over the country about the current state of our democracy and unity is undeniable all because of the callous act of a single individual.
Mahmood Yakubu’s disregard of the constitution poses the biggest threat to the unity of this great nation and if nothing is done about it, it will set a precedent. As a matter of fact, future INEC Chairmen may see it as the norm and we cannot afford that. Africa cannot afford it.
We cannot allow this to become the precedent. The deterrent has to be set… not tomorrow but immediately.
The world watched through what has transpired and has grown apprehensive about our future as a nation. This also goes beyond Nigeria, as the entire African continent is going through a new phase of insurgency and coup d’etat, and civil war.
Election rigging if allowed to stay in Nigeria will embolden a new bunch of intend-to-be dictators across Africa and also set a new scale of election rigging.
Mahmood Yakubu belongs in jail – there is no question about that.
Another thing that will go a long way in assuring the world and interested investors in Nigeria is for President Buhari for the first time in his government – to do all within his powers in these last days of his regime, to ensure that the Supreme Court stays unbiased in the adjudicating of the election petition.
Anything short of that may be the end of what we know today as Nigeria.
