As at date, one can boldly affirm/confirm that elections/selections in Nigeria are evolving in either of these two dimensions (depending on your perspective):

(1) Good....Better....Best

OR

(2) Bad....Worse....Worst.

Evidently, the following negations have increasingly characterized Naija's elections/selections and it appears there is no end soonest:

1. No intra-party democracy

2. Imposition of candidates

3. Godfatherism

4. Rigging (Analogue Method and opponents are aware but electoral umpires may not be in the know)

5. Rigging (Digital Method under the watchful eyes of the opponents and electoral umpires are fully in the know)

6. Stealing of mandate (Confrontational Method where intimidation is applied across board...opponents, voters, electoral umpires, etc)

7. Vote buying (Direct and Indirect Methods)

8. Chasing of voters

9. Clear-cut partisanship of umpires

10. Killings of voters

11. Killings of opponents

12. Killings of Electoral officials

13. Kidnapping of opponents, electoral officials, voters, etc

14. Chasing of voters out of pulling units

15. Thuggery

16. Burning, tearing and destruction of electoral materials

17. Ballot box snatching by thugs

18. Ballot box snatching by alleged ''uniformed'' men

19. Ballot box snatching by thugs and alleged ''uniformed men''

20. Threats and Hostage taking

21. Declaration of results under duress

22. Inconclusiveness of elections

23. Supplementary elections

24. Court orders to stop collation of results

25. Court order to stop announcement of results

26. Non-issuance of Certificate of Return to a declared winner

27. Suspension of electoral processes, temporary or indefinitely

28. Maiming of voters/party supporters under the watch of security personnel

29. Inter-tribal threats and fights

30. Invasion of opponents'homes/facilities by ''men on uniform''.

31. Invasion of collation centers by ''men on uniform''.

32. Invasion of collation centers by party supporters.

33. Voters' apathy.

34. Widespread shameless lying and denials

35. Claims and counter-claims

36. Accusations and counter-accusations

37. Thumb-printing factories.

38. Under-age voting

39. De-camping

40. Cross-carpeting

41. Increasing number of political parties

42. Interference of religious groups, traditional entities, etc

43. Hijacking

44. Mergers and coalitions

45. Moles and Spies

46. Politician working against his/her party secretly

47. Politician working against his/her party secretly

E.T.C.

You can add more for I cannot tell it all.

But the BIG QUESTION is, where are we headed with all these issues?

I hope the Electoral Act will address these teething issues because somehow, somebody started the issue of vote buying, another person started the issue of security invasion, and so on, until recently someone started the issue of court cases against INEC's declaration/collation of results.

If this unfortunate trend is unchecked, somebody may wake-up and get an injunction for election not to hold and INEC might obey...you never can tell when/how the drama will unfold...

A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE!!!