LG Autonomy: What’s Tinubu’s game?
By Ochereome Nnanna SOMETIMES Nigerians rejoice over some government policies only to find out later that they wasted their euphoria. Remember when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced he would ensure electronic transmission of results in the 2023 general elections. Nigerians rejoiced. The sleeping youth awoke. Everyone headed to voter’s card registration centres. Some fought and paid bribes just to get registered. Here was a chance to change the old order. “Vote wisely” was the song on every lip. In the end what did we get? The INEC electronic system our hopes for free and fair elections were hinged on mysteriously “glitched”. INEC resorted to the rigging system that produced the same old, discredited outcome! The Judiciary simply completed their own side of the plot, and here we are. Look at the price we’ve already paid after just one year! The recent Supreme Court verdict mandating the Accountant General of the Federation...