That is the real import of Onanuga’s admonition when he warned Igbo residents in Lagos against interfering in the State’s politics. It has become a norm that people can only exercise their franchise without molestation in their states of origin unless they are prepared to vote for the party of the political overlord in their states of residence. The self-styled Nigerian progressives are busy constricting the country’s democratic space. ![]() Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, sounded a note of warning that it will be worse in 2027. To add insult to injury, they have, through Mr. ![]() ![]() That is how low the self-styled Nigerian progressives have sunk. The country’s debilitating fault lines have been hideously magnified by the self-styled Nigerian progressives to the extent that today, Nigerians, bonafide citizens, are physically stopped from exercising their franchise by non-state actors with the Nigerian state doing nothing. Nigeria has been reduced to a laughing stock in the comity of democratic states. Democracy has become a charade under their watch. In the ensuing eight years, they have repudiated all they stood for before 2015, thereby exposing themselves as hypocrites and pretenders. The self-styled Nigerian progressives had become untouchables even before they came to power in 2015 and in the eight years they have been in power, they have succeeded in turning a “rotten situation to a bad one” – apologies to Tinubu. Of course, nothing was done by the lily-livered and pusillanimous Goodluck Jonathan administration. In fact, Corinne Dufka, the then senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the elections which were among the bloodiest, were also “heralded as among the fairest in Nigeria’s history” and urged that “the newly elected authorities should quickly build on the democratic gains from the elections by bringing to justice those who orchestrated these horrific crimes and addressing the root causes of the violence.” ![]() Buhari knew that he had no chance in hell of winning any of the elections prior to 2015, yet he claimed he was cheated.
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