As a highly contested people and environment, we know that for all the chronic voting problems deep within the country that continue to eat away at our electoral space, why not give way to the candidate who is currently leading in the polls, repeal temporarily the Constitution, and simply install the one in whom the people believe and want to rule?
Time and again, polls show Labor presidential candidate Peter Obi will win in 2023, with more voters set to vote for Obi in a three-horse race between him, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) , and Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party.
As I write this, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Mahmood Yakubu has expressed concern over election violence, citing the agency’s tracking of numerous attacks and destruction across the country since .
Some current presidential candidates are concerned about the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) to be used in the 2023 general election, regarding the functionality of the technology in terms of accreditation and the reliability and reliability of the count total votes.
There are fears that the roll out of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the 2023 general elections will address Nigeria’s perennial problem of election rigging or complicity by corrupt election officials who are physically and directly involved in an electoral organization. . The cyclical corruption of the judiciary is also caused by sullied judges ruling out of fear or compromise, with some election losers attacking judges because the results of their cases do not favor them in court rulings.
We know, as a people and as an environment, that for all the chronic issues listed here, why not make way for Obi, who is currently leading in the polls, temporarily repeal the Constitution and just install him as the one in whom the people believe and want to govern?
The question I asked about the instantaneous and collective installation of Obi and the temporary termination of the Constitution is certainly anathema to the soul of our young, but troubled, growing democracy and nation. .
But if we ask most Nigerians today about those who do not rank favorably in opinion polls, they will likely see them as selfish authoritarians, ready to abuse the electoral process through monetization, militarization, violence and other forms of intimidation, trample their basic rights, and rise to the presidency to govern people who, for the most part, do not want to be under them.
Today and until election day, no decent person in Nigeria can deny that Obi, unlike his other main presidential competitors, is seen by most people as a non-political enemy in terms of genuine desire to provide an environment where basic necessities such as food, health products (medicines, etc.), clean water, housing and shelter are available.
So why not just let the people take Obi and install him as president based on favorable polls? Won’t that save us from all the unusually dark actions, such as wealthy politicians bribing poll workers and buying votes?
Won’t this instant installation save time and money to deploy personnel from Police, Army, Department of State Services, Nigeria Security, Corps of civil defense and others, as well as members of the National Youth Service Corps?
The public stance against any of Obi’s names is unclear, as he has a strong national following among most Nigerians, so why wait?
In a highly terrorism-prone place like Nigeria, especially during election seasons, the continued destruction of voting materials, lack of security of election officials, operation of party thugs, and destruction of the election building and vehicles are likely to continue, so why not avoid all that and plan the Obi install now?
To his credit, President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerians not to be afraid to voice their opinions in the 2023 general election. He wants them to vote according to their conscience which is fine but not when the Nigeria has a history of very flawed presidential elections in which politicians win by any means possible because political parties and politicians involve violence and corruption.
By considering installing Obi now, Nigerians will evade those who will win power by any means, such as Atiku and Tinubu, seen by most Nigerians as corrupt oligarchies whose style of governance will continue to enshrine nepotism, showing a lack of transparency. to government and show stunted developments in areas such as energy, education and the health sector. Witness poor economic and political transformation and a lack of commitment to transparency and accountability, causing people to rise higher in safety, pain and poverty.
So, in order to justify the positions of being fair to the people, to hope for peace in the country and to save us from the usual criminal voting operation during election seasons, the question of the installation of Peter Obi in Nigeria’s presidency now remains a sharp question.
Professor John Egbeazien Oshodi, born in Uromi, Edo State, Nigeria to a father who served in the Nigerian Police Force for 37 years, is an American police and prison scientist and medical psychologist. -legal, clinical and legal. A government consultant on matters of forensic psychological services for adults and children in the United States; chief educator and clinician at the Transatlantic Enrichment and Refresher Institute, a permanent online center for personal, professional and career development; and former acting associate dean and assistant professor at Broward College, Florida. The Founder of the Dr. John Egbeazien Oshodi Foundation, Center for Psychological Health and Behavior Change in African Contexts. Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the College of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, USA. Director of Online Studies and Professor of Psychology – Online Faculty at Weldios University in the Republic of Benin. He is a Virtual Professor of Behavioral Leadership at ISCOM University, Republic of Benin. Founder of the Transatlantic Egbeazien Open University (TEU) of Values and Ethics project, a digital truth, ethics and openness project. More than forty academic publications and creations, at least 300 public opinion articles on African issues and various books have been written by him. He specializes in psycho-prescriptive writings on African institutional and governance issues. His most recent publication is Concise Psychology: An Integrated Forensic Approach to Psychology for Global African Settings.
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