From the reports of violence coming in from several parts of the country,
it seems apparent that the country failed to make progress on the gains
of the improved elections we witnessed in 2015.

There was violence in 2015, but there was improvement. The card readers
were used. We expected the use of the card readers to be added into
are electoral act, but for his own reasons, the president did not sign
that bill.

Now, it seems that soldiers get directly involved in the process, as opposed
to what we saw in 2015, when the court ruled that the military must not get
within a certain distance of any polling unit.

I think one major difference was the commitment of the last president
to respecting the outcome of the elections, as opposed to
what most believe to be this administration's all-or-nothing approach
to retaining power.

Indeed, the process seems haphazard, and we seem not to have
improved on the improvements recorded during the last elections (the Jega regime)
even if that is what we all had hoped for our country, going forward.

The mere fact that there are polling units were ordinary cannot go and cast their votes
because of the threat of violence, is completely absurd.

The political class has empowered thuggery and the thugs that
perpetuate thuggery, such that it is the thugs that own the
process.

When the process that determines leadership outcomes within
our country gets properly marinated within the devices
of such thugs as we see grab ballot papers (maybe burn them) and chase voters away,
what kind of country/society do we expect emerges
out of that scenario?