Got this from a friend's fb's page. Very apt.

State of the Nation review.
Status: Old News
Venue: Transcorp Hillton Hotel
Speaker: Donald Duke (a former
Governor)
Year: 2010
Subject: The art and tricks of
Electoral rigging in Nigeria and
suggested ways forward.
Citizens' immediate Action: shock,
laughter, enjoyed the lecture and
made it viral on social media. Rain
of curse and condemnation on
PDP.
Citizens Solutions: curses,
protests and call for revolution,
birth of more emergency
activism on social media
Results: Nothing changed. History
repeated itself in 2011 and also in
2013.
Citizens' 2013 reaction: curse
PDP, call for Jega's sack.
Citizens' dream: a mass
revolution that will wipe out the
election riggers and usher in a
saint president who will be voted
in a free and fair election
organise by nobody in particular
(?) While they sleep in their
houses and voting along ethno-
religious sentiments if they ever
go out!
Government Action: creates a
National Dialogue where citizens
can talk more and more and earn
some sitting allowance even
though the talk will still be subject
to revision and alteration by the
political class and, probably
thrown away if it is too
revolutionary.
My comment: no comment! The
handwriting is boldly our thumbs
(whether it was marked or
unmarked) and our legs (as they
carried us all to polling booths on
election days)
Excerpt from the lecture:
"The truth is, the chairman of the
Independent National Electoral
Commission has little or no
bearing on the success of
elections, that’s the truth. To
me, it’s actually immaterial
because he is head of the
administration he takes the
brunt. The best he can do is
perhaps, draw up a blueprint but
the implementation of that
blueprint is outside his control.
So, if elections are rigged in say -
Taraba State- we don’t do that
stuff in Cross Rivers State
(laughter),"
"The people think that at the end
of the elections, the PDP would
just decide who wins and who
doesn’t and announces the
results. I think the process is a
bit more sophisticated than
that."
"Let me take our minds back to
Somalia. Somalia is mono-
religious, mono-ethnic; they only
have clans (but) they have one
tribe. What has happened there?
It’s a failed state because the
elite in Somalia were so
disconnected from the people .....
"
"When we conducted the census
in 2006 or so, the raw figures
said we were over two hundred
million; when they went and
processed the figures it came
down to 140million.
When you look at those figures
and compare to those we had in
1991 at a growth rate of 2.1 or
something like that, it is really
just an extrapolation, because we
were too embarrassed to admit
our true numbers."
"There is not a polling booth that
is more than five hundred. So only
two hundred people appear here,
three hundred there, one
hundred there, fifty there, four
hundred there, at the end of
election what happens. The
Presiding Officer sits down and
calls a few guys and says, ‘hey,
there are a few hundred papers
here, let’s thumbprint. This is the
real election. Well, this is not a
PDP thing. I am not here to
castigate the PDP; it’s a Nigerian
thing. This process may sound
comical and jovial, it happens
throughout the country, whether
its Action Congress or APGA it’s
the same thing. We are all the
same. They start thumb-printing,
some are overzealous. So at the
end of the day you find some
voting more than the number of
people that were registered to
vote."
"So, as long as we keep applying
that same method, you will get
the same results. Its crazy to
think that because you
substitute Iwu for Jega all will
change. In other words, Iwu is a
crook, Jega is a saint. Jega is
great, he has an impeccable
reputation. Iwu was great, now he
seems not so great. Ok, they are
both professors, they have
reached the peak of whatever
discipline that they profess. The
point is that it is the system and
the personnel and the chairman
has little or no control over that."
"We need a critical mass of
Nigerians to get out and vote. It is
important because the more
ballot papers that are
legitimately used on election day,
the fewer available to be used to
rig the vote, that’s the truth.
Don’t keep to yourself and think
that they will announce results.
They are more sophisticated
than that. And that’s why the
aspirants who felt cheated and
had the resources to employ
forensic personnel, like those
elections had the elections
upturned in Edo and Ondo,
because they could establish
multiple voting by thumbprint.
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