1 May 2011
By Jideofor Adibe
Just when Nigerians were beginning to bask in the euphoria of a possible dawn of a new era following the relative success of the National Assembly elections on April 9, the aftermath of the presidential polls that followed a week later is turning out to be a killjoy.
While Nigerians were at least initially unanimous about the freeness and fairness of the National Assembly polls, primordial binoculars appear to determine one’s assessment of the conduct of the April 16 presidential polls. There also appears to be a re-assessment of the April 9 National Assembly polls, with some now saying that the exercise appeared credible only because the bar of public expectations was extremely low after the false start of April 2, when Jega had to abort the elections mid way.
My personal opinion is that the acrimonies and violence that followed the presidential polls in some parts of the North are reflective of the crisis in our nation- building project. There are several salient issues here:
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