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As the topic refers, who bears the cost of all these mess? Taxpayers? Its no news courts are ordering rerun of elections on the premise of being riddled with fraud but the concern is does rerun guaranty another free and fair election? Looking at the outcome of Bayelsa polls, one should also expect lingering court battles that would subsequently lead to another rerun.

Given the economic woes Nigeria is in now, even the World at large, running another election is a big strain to our economy because a lot of expenses is involved. Payment of INEC staff, deployment of materials, logistics, printing of ballot papers etc.

We are so damn.ed in this country and in a big mess. Only we can help ourselves as this isn't the time to say God help us.

Who bore the cost of the initial elections? Or you want INEC to declare winners by force when people were shooting guns, voting at midnight, hijacking electoral materials and kidnapping INEC officials?

You missed my point. Its a question for reflection. Hope you get that too.

meforyou1:
Who bore the cost of the initial elections? Or you want INEC to declare winners by force when people were shooting guns, voting at midnight, hijacking electoral materials and kidnapping INEC officials?

OutOnBail:
You missed my point. Its a question for reflection. Hope you get that too.

well what is what doing is worth doing well. The possibility of having a rerun should be envisaged by INEC in all elections. And adequate budgetary provisions made for them. So if it doesn't happen, the money be returned back to treasury, but if it does, it should be utilised.

Just another loophole in the system to loot.. Wonder how the rerun got there in the first place,.. Goes to show the original inec officials that announced the initial wrong results favoring the wrong candidates understand the system and how to make money from it... We better learn from advanced Democratic nations on how they got it right

That's the point.

NigLasPresident:
Just another loophole in the system to loot.. Wonder how the rerun got there in the first place,.. Goes to show the original inec officials that announced the initial wrong results favoring the wrong candidates understand the system and how to make money from it... We better learn from advanced Democratic nations on how they got it right