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Matter Arisen, Lautech Student Union Elections by Hardeydamola(m): 12:05pm On May 29, 2015
"The aim of every political constitution is...first to obtain for rulers, men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue the common goal of society."
-- James Madison

For all intent and purpose our independent union captures the core of democratic theory in referring to "Governments ..deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Free and fair elections are essential in assuring the "consent of the governed," the bedrock of democratic politics. They are at once both power- and legitimacy-conferring instruments, just as unfair and dishonest elections may cast doubt on one's claim to office and diminish one's ability to govern: "the dependence on the people". Which is obviously and most importantly the primary control on the government."
By determining peacefully those who shall govern and by bestowing legitimacy on the decisions they make, elections provide answers to crucial questions faced by any political system. These goals are more easily achieved when the characteristics of an electoral system encourage a widely shared perception that elections are both free and fair. Factors encouraging this perception are a franchise and an access to the ballot that are more inclusive than exclusive; an equality of votes so that no vote counts more than another; and election outcomes determined by rules established in advance, with minimal cheating and fraud in the casting and counting of votes. These standards for free and fair elections were in place yesterday unlike past elections in our political history where ballot box stufings are the top order of the day.
Few argue that electoral politics in Lautech is perfect as Some of its features from time to time don't seem to have hindered, deflected, muted, or distorted the people's consent by determining winners and losers, they simply accomplish what elections are designed to do. Defeated candidates and their supporters willingly, if not cheerfully, defer to the victors and acknowledge their right to rule with the notable example of the last year Arexzie /Dr young post election hug at Faculty of Management sciences. This is no small achievement. Such acceptance presupposes a stable political system where ultimate values and interests are rarely, if ever, at risk.
Barely 24hrs ago,Lautech witnessed one of the most free and fairest elections ever conducted in the Campus Unfortunately as fate struck the election was pronounced suspended and the electoral commission led by Oke Oluwaseun Isaac Dr Young dissolved.
As early as 6:40, Divergent contrasting irony of fate started to dawn on both the opposition and the ruling party which began striking them one after the other.
There were many‘ifs’ just 20 hours after the purported cancelation of the May 28, 2015 lautech student election–that even as transitional as it is from manua to e-voting, it is still considered freest and fairest.
If the parliamentarians, that voted the pronounced dissolved electoral chairman, had known that their decision to vote him would ultimately one day soon Put our union on the brink of extinction that the election he was saddled to orchestrate would lead to the plethora of crises that Lautech would take long to get over, they may not have acted in that manner.  Indeed if he, the electoral chairman had known that this  electoral process can in no little way be influenced or tampered with without producing events that would spiral to a fatal end for him, he may not have sought the chairmanship of the Electoral commission. 
Ethically and Legally, no one has the right to cancel an election that is less than 5 minutes from being over, But as we know, the winner takes it all mindset in Lautech is trying to make the situation on the ground so terrible as the ruling class smelled they have lost this election they wouldn't give room for the wish of the people and decided to hold the whole school to ransome by choosing not to declare a winner they fear would not be from their side of the divide.
That either Zeal or Solace,Bepo or Babalola might have won the election fairly and squarely but was not declared or that some collegians were circumstantially not allowed to exercise their civic right as ladokites both are matters that neither is as big as making the election cancelled.
As early as 8am on Thursday when voting timetable was announced student from college were zoned to cast their votes using the Lautech e-voting facility in the school library latter the electoral chairman swiftly resorted this time announcing that collegians are to now vote in the New college with about 70 laptops already on there way to the college.
Hustle followed tustle yet about 40% of collegians willing to vote could not successfully cast their votes as at 3:pm while almost every centres inside school have closed for the business of the day. Seeing the blunder they have unleashed on collegians the electoral committee then re-mandated collegians to start voting inside school using all of union buses to convey collegians to where they were originally alotted to vote and extended the elections by a further 1hour 30minutes with all this going on the commission still argued that collegians were not allowed to vote,
My million dollar question is who did not allow them? And have they being doing on those laptops since morning ?
If During the Nigeria general elections, election was not cancelled because there was no election in about 22 polling units nationwide and some prominent areas in Rivers and Akwa-ibom state why not can umpire Dr Young led commission entrusted with our Mandate pronounce the result from our student union election.
The nasty fact is that our winner-take-all election system, has the potential to leave up to 69.9% of the Ladokites feeling unrepresented whatever their department or Level is.
Ladokites interest has, however, become less relevant to political umpires such as Dr young and his crews, despite the role of our a political structure saddled with sustaining differences based on Affliation. It was largely supplanted yesterday by party agenda and selfish ideologies that has become a characteristic of Lautech politics.
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the Student Union government is divided between two parties.
I just Pray Ladokites are yet to because if a winner is not pronounced I fear for our unity as Passaites would never stop seeing Famasaites as enemies and Fabamsaites would not stop seeing Passaites as enemies.
Our Prayer is that the school would remember a part in the second stanza of our school anthem insinuating that our union is to Foster unity and would no matter what give us our election results whether Zeal or Solace whether Babalola or Bepo ladokites have decided and nobody no matter how provostial should not and we hope would not be allowed to edit the voices of Ladokites.
We hope in future the country and fellow alma-matas would emulate Lautech's e-voting arrangement as ladokites have proved it to be fairest sort of Electioneering.


Gospel preached by a lautech pastor who choose to remain anonymous......

But then Lets trend it on Social medias
#Lautechdecides#giveusourresults
Re: Matter Arisen, Lautech Student Union Elections by santos247(m): 12:29pm On May 29, 2015
You people better graduate early and look for job.

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