Its unfortunate that the very group with the majority of power & stake ownership in today's democracy in Nigeria which are the electorate (the Nigerian people) are but the very manipulated, sacrificed and defrauded people in this modern era, not even the past with its challenges in education & technology can be compared to the electorate of today where literacy and information communication technology has markedly increased.

One of the laws of power quote that "people don't have power over others except the latter had consciously/unconsciously given it to them" which makes it clearly easy to influence them to do their bidding. When people yield to others will/give their power to others its mainly because of three things 1) benefit 2) fear and 3) popularity/love.
These are what we currently see playing out in the Nigerian politics; politicians, political parties, political aspirants, secret groups (like cabals) have wrestled these power given to the electorate through democracy by engaging in political games or conspiracy using elements mentioned above to gain political power over them, and so far what follows after is uncountable social disasters(eg: insurgency, corruption, mass deaths, poverty, scarcity, high market price, etc) that supersede whatever listed achievements of past & present administrations.
Our findings point to the very distasteful voting behavior and other political engagement of the populace which includes vote buying, popularity/crowd voting, voting due religious & ethnical sentiments, sarcastic and mockery attitude, laxity, ignorance and collective brute affront to those in power, seeking power and using political machinery against.
added to this constraints of the electorate are oppressions, threats and injustice they face even if they were to publicly ask questions and engage head on against the negative political elements.
Our investigations further reveal that a majority of the electorate have been politically programmed to either vote for PDP or any that rises as a formidable second opposition where in a majority of members are from the north.
while others are seen as having no chance or a waste of vote.
it is fortunate that we aren't practising a two party system because the popular two don't have good records to justify their political ambitions for the people.
Thus, the begging question why can't the electorate look for solutions to the ever increasing socio-economic problems in Nigeria from other political parties that should be given a try ? and pause/stop or discontinue in this vicious cycle between the two popular parties where evidently their members cross carpet between one another frequently.

Will the public be only an instrument manipulated and used to satisfy the interest of the political elites (both internally & externally)
& self fulfill to the phrase " We are each others devils & we make the world our hell"
or rise and be the very instrument of change and a formidable opposition in Nigerian politics.
Where do you stand ?

published by
Young Mob Intelligence Group