THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND ITS PECULIARITIES
“The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain…”- a line from the Nigerian national anthem which every well-meaning citizen wishes and anticipates will come into fruition democratically, and therefore looks forward to the 7 th general elections since the dawn of the fourth republic. The February 2023 general election is one which has been anticipated for a long time. On the part of the ordinary citizen, it is so because the previous 8 years have been marked with intense socio-economic hardship in forms of: fuel scarcity, an all-time high inflation rate, ASUU strikes, police intimidation and insecurity. On the part of the elites and ruling class however, the speculations of the positive and negative influences on the shift in federal might from one president and vice-president to the prospective other lingers in the high-class spaces. Similarly, the offensive and counter-offensive strategies between the contending political parties has produced fresh talking...