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Emilokan: A Burden Of Electoral Consequences, By Raphael Adebayo by Fareke: 6:03pm On May 12
The hope of the EmiLoKan cult, and by extension the totality of the political class, is for ordinary Nigerians to continually misidentify their actual adversary so their immiseration and ruin can be inviolably complete.

What do we mean when we say electoral consequences—and consequences for whom?

There is this widespread, almost unquestionable, consensus—mostly among dissidents—that it is all well and good to consciously disparage, alienate, and condemn the masses to the dead weight of the present socio-economic miseries ravaging the entirety of this country. The justification for this, in a nutshell, is that a sizablemass of the public, particularly in the South-Westand Core-North, voted for the recently enthroned colossal affliction of the EmiLoKan variety, otherwise known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We are told that those who are complicit in the enthronement of this catastrophe, even if marginally, must be thrown to the wolves of socioeconomic privation and abandoned to suffer the consequences of undesirable electoral outcomes.

Understandably, however swift or sly human actions may be, even when they are exercised as electoral choices, they are inexorably shadowed by their consequences. And yet, to insist on consequences without interrogating the whole premise and its accompanying circumstances is to miss the vital lessons of history. Concretely, the first lesson that the champions of electoral consequences must note is more cautionary than punitive, and this is the fact that they have rendered themselves victims of a blinding political fallacy. In the main, this mirage is animated by the assumption that the masses of this country were so free in the heavily militarized and thuggified 2023 general elections that they played a decisive role in the self-selection of the incumbent illegitimate President of Nigeria.

the masses of our country, indeed to understand the multidimensionally poor who constitute the majority of our population; the impoverished peasants who can no longer go to farm because ethnoreligious terrorists are all too willing to seize their land and viciously end their lives to boot; the unpaid and underpaid workers;the underemployed with MScs and PhDs playing sentry to the homes of the political class and the bourgeoisie; the indentured laborers trapped in bourgeois upper-middle-class and upper classhomes and subjected to dehumanizing tasks day in, day out by people (sometimes half their age)with ghastly intentions to subject even theoffspring of the indentured to generationalservitude or worse—to understand them all, one must be willing to fully submit to the internalization of the absurd, to consciously make a break with the abstraction of the conditions of the masses, the workers and peasantry and the dire economic conditions on the streets, and tomeet them all with humility and feeling at every point of their existential predispositions without losing the exigency of rigorous intellection.

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Re: Emilokan: A Burden Of Electoral Consequences, By Raphael Adebayo by ALMUSTAQIM(m): 6:18pm On May 12
God continue to guard and guide PBAT 2331 aright to lead Nigeria to Prosperity.

God bless Nigeria
Re: Emilokan: A Burden Of Electoral Consequences, By Raphael Adebayo by dekis: 6:22pm On May 12
In business, it's better you under promise and over deliver, than over promise and under deliver
Re: Emilokan: A Burden Of Electoral Consequences, By Raphael Adebayo by ShoeGetSize: 6:47pm On May 12
PBAT is a fool, just like the people who support him. Even your ogas are beginning to wake up.




ALMUSTAQIM:
God continue to guard and guide PBAT 2331 aright to lead Nigeria to Prosperity.

God bless Nigeria

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