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Showing posts with label nigerian national assembly. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

At last, a watershed in Nigeria’s electoral process?


By Paul Arhewe

Change, as it is generally known, is a constant factor that can never be ruled out in any human engagements, whether positively or negatively driven। No doubt, last weekend’s Senatorial and House of Representatives polls have brought significant change, both positively and negatively in the hitherto pattern of electioneering in Nigeria. Recently, I read an article from the archives of Times Magazine titled ‘Nigeria: Electioneering in the Bush’. This article was written November 2, 1959, precisely eleven months to Nigeria’s independence. Nigerians then had never voted in any popularly organised election.