AN ELECTORAL TENURE IN NIGERIA IS FOUR YEARS AND NOT SIXTEEN YEARS.

By Bemgba Iortyom.

A certain line of thought appears to be gaining currency with supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria, that since the PDP did sixteen years in power it is unfair to analyse the performance of the ruling party yet being it only over a year in power.

They are also quick to dash under the cover of blaming the sixteen years of PDP rule for all the hardship being faced by Nigerians under the watch of the ruling party.

But facts which are on the other hand gaining ascendency are that sixteen years is not an electoral tenure in Nigeria, a tenure is only four years and getting even an additional one of another four years is becoming more and more difficult with the prevailing realities of the times.

The electoral franchise is coming more and more into the custody of the people as such securing it is no more conditional on being the ruling party, but on performance posted in office.

Nigerians will not be reckoning that since PDP did sixteen years we will also wait for sixteen years before assessing the performance of the APC. No. Neither will Nigerians be attributing their immediate problems to the sixteen years of the PDP era. No, they are demanding solutions from the APC in the present, because that, in the first place, was the core basis of the contract entered into between the people and the APC at the 2015 elections.

They are demanding affordable living conditions from the APC in the present and not from the PDP of yesterday, and this is a just demand from Nigerians because the APC promised it to them.

At the next round of elections the talking points will be about APC rule of four years and not about PDP rule of the past and gone sixteen years.

This is as yet a silent but salient fact.

Culled from a friend's Facebook Page.

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