HUMPHREY NWOSU @80: An Ode To Nigeria’s Icon Of Democracy
HUMPHREY NWOSU @80: An Ode To Nigeria's Icon Of Democracy By Collins Opurozor One major challenge that confronts democracy in Nigeria today is how to make votes count. In many instances, votes are not even counted. For Nigerians, elections are concluded, in the language of Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, as hollow rituals, bandwagons, direct captures and simulated landslides. The mandates which most politicians claim are effectively dubious, and there is no psychological satisfaction in voting, because the people know that it is either that their votes will not be counted or that their votes will not count. Since popular consent still…