₦airaland Forum

Ishilove:
When they Bleep are they supposed to reopen the fucking bridge?

They were originally supposed to open it at the end of December, but the End SARS protest disrupted their plan and so it will now be reopened at the end of January.

okemejames:
Naptu2

Why did you mention my username?

lexy2014:
Am not too sure where I put words in ur mouth. If u can show me, I will be glad. I was only trying to draw a timeline& I said d protests could have "reconfigured d brains of MOST VOTERS". Meaning, it could have responsible for d voter apathy. I don't no where u read me make reference to protesters.

This is where you put words in my mouth.

am sure u referring to just before d endsars protests

I did not refer to the End SARS protest and I was not referring to before the end SARS protest. The End SARS protest held in October. We are in December. The agitation that I'm referring to began at the beginning of November and lasted all through that month.

lexy2014:
If there was "noise", honestly speaking, I didn't hear it. Just saw a few posters of ashiru& gbadamosi. But judging by what u said about noise, am sure u referring to just before d endsars protests. Am sure that protests has reconfigured d brains of most voters

I am not referring to End SARS protesters. Don't put words in my mouth. I am referring to activists who, in the past few weeks, have declared that this election will mark a change in Nigeria. They stated that this election is the first opportunity for them to show their power and they were going to destroy APC in Lagos.

Many said that people should and would vote for Gbadamosi, the candidate of the PDP, because they believed that he was the only one that had the chance to defeat the APC, while others said that both PDP and APC were bad and therefore they were going to vote for someone that wasn't representing either APC or PDP.

It was a big deal on Twitter and to some extent on Nairaland. People were circulating pictures of candidates and doing voter education.

I didn't see that happening with any of the other bye elections that are holding today and my question is, what happened to all the noise? I was eagerly anticipating an exciting day, but instead it is quite a disappointment.

joseph1832:
noise makers. I'm sure in 2023 this one tweeting won't even go near a polling unit talkless of voting. We should even ask him if he has ever voted in his life before.

He's actually being sarcastic. For the past one week he has been tweeting sarcastically about people who make a lot of noise on social media but do not follow the process or back it up.

lexy2014:
Have d lives of these voters in zamfara been transformed? Are they now living of 3 square meals a day, good roads, good shelter, jobs e.t.c as a result of their voting?

The question is, why was there so much noise about the Lagos East Bye Election before hand and yet the people that made all that noise did not show up to vote?? That's the question.

It almost seemed as if there was no election anywhere else! What happened to all the noise??

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This is Lagos East

Compare and contrast.

This is Zamfara. Compare it with my next post.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is currently conducting bye-elections in some constituencies across the country. One of those constituencies is the Lagos East Senatorial District.

However, there have so far been very few voters at polling stations this morning. This has forced INEC officials and political party agents to use megaphones and to go from door to door in order to convince people to come out and vote.