What happens when a general election is suddenly postponed as it was always the case in Nigeria? The option of such deliberate delay would afford an unpopular administration to re-strategize, re-organize and deploy fresh rigging machinery into operation to achieve the ultimate desire for pseudo victory!
Up to the first week of February 2023 when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), closed the window for collection of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), across Nigeria, thousands of thousands of bona fide Electorate had been disenfranchised due to institutional lapses and nonchalant attitude of the larger personnel of the electoral umpire!

Citizens besieged all designated collection centres foisted by INEC through various publicity portals but it became crystal clear as the period of collection thinned out that such PVCs were either non-existent or had been vandalized and were never re-printed!

In the second week, Monday 13th February 2023, Professor Mahmood Yakubu INEC Chairman told Nigerians that elections would not be held in 240 Polling Units across Nigeria because voters failed to register in those units that were established in 20, States of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

While addressing the 18 political Parties Chairmen, the INEC Chairman disclosed that his Staff discovered on inspection that the polling units had no registered voters and also disclosed that the total number of polling units in Nigeria were 176,606. And whereas it was in June 2022, that INEC established an additional 56 872 polling units in his expansion of Voter Access Drive to accommodate all the Electorate without disenfranchising anyone. To the ordinary layman INEC did a yeoman’s job to prove its credibility to deliver an all-inclusive and transparent elections to the populace.

BUT IS INEC NOT SUSPECT AND COMPLICIT?

News making the rounds is that 40 local government areas in the Northern parts of the country were under Boko Haram terrorists and bandits jurisdiction and that in those areas, the insurgents collect taxes and have even taken over the farms of the indigenes with a view to enslaving them permanently. WE have it on good authority that in January 2023, the Professor said that elections would not be held in those 240 PUs for SECURITY REASONS! BUT WE are not alien to the Professor's nuances and double-speaking! In the year 2019 Mahmood gave Nigerians assurances and convictions that the conduct of that year’s general elections would be flawless in spite of the existing threats to national security through vandalism and destruction of lives and properties in an unimaginable proportions between October 2018 and the election year!

BUT AT DAWN ON THE D-DAY AT EXACTLY 02.44 AM, WHEN THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NIGERIA WERE STILL FAST ASLEEP, (BARELY FIVE HOURS TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POLLS - SLATED FOR SATURDAY 16TH FEBRUARY, 2019, FROM 08.00HRS), PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU ANNOUNCED POSTPONEMENT BY ONE WEEK EACH OF THE TWO STRATEGIC ELECTIONS! If that was not an affront/insult to the collective sensibilities of about 200 million CITIZENS by just one man who depended on an Electoral Act to the detriment of their Fundamental Rights as entrenched in the GRUNDNORM – the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, and got away with it!

HIS REASONS? Logistics and weather challenges!!!! The Executive Umpire said it was INEVITABLE!!!! He later interacted with all stakeholders, Chairmen of political parties
in the afternoon of 16 February 2019 an explained that logistic constraints had to do with the air lifting of highly sensitive materials to far-flung Local Government Areas so that elections could commence simultaneously at 0800 a.m. across the country but that ILL WEATHER prevailed against the plan. The Professor assured Nigerians that the new date which was 23rd February 2019 was sacrosanct and that no one should exercise any further fear of another postponement because sensitive materials that were already in circulation would be recovered and re-certified. He also assured all Nigerians and the Electorate of the unflinching integrity and loyalty of his management team with an emphasis that the "COMMISSION WOULD NOT PLAY ANY ONE'S SCRIPT!"
MAHMOOD YAKUBU IS STILL IN THE SADDLE FOR THE 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS WHICH COME UP WITHIN SIX DAYS OF THIS PUBLICATION - 25TH FEBRUARY, 2023!

ARE NIGERIANS IN FOR ANOTHER SHOCKER IN RESPECT OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTION DATES?

The new 2022 Electoral Act rests the exercise of PREROGATIVE ON INEC Chairman to exercise all legal powers in the conduct of elections including the right to postpone such elections in cases of the possibility of serious breach of peace, natural disaster or other emergencies provided that such reason was cogent and verifiable. Nigerians are not new to postponement of elections because in the preparations to the 2011 and 2015 general elections various logistic challenges cropped up.

BUT 2015 postponement was a government intervention under the PDP Administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan over the issue of INSECURITY which topped the list of his fears.
AND he wasted no time to announce a very long postponement through his National Security Advisor, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki.. Before the postponement of the 2015 elections, there were several allegations that the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its allies had prepared to invite foreign mercenaries to work with Boko Haram terrorist in order to seize the government at all cost. It was also alleged that terrorists were heavily funded to unleash mayhem before, during and after the elections because billions of US dollars had exchange hands to ensure that the rigging plan by the opposition was "faith accompli."

QUESTIONS:
Is there any possibility that the 2023 General Elections could be sabotaged by the FIFTH COLUMNISTS whom all the stakeholders including the ruling party were bandying about without bringing forth solid evidences thus far?
According to newspaper reports, not less than 134 INEC facilities have been vandalized, damaged and destroyed continuously in the last two years leading to January 2023! The worst-hit had been the Eastern States of Nigeria especially IMO and Anambra. Apart from INEC facilities, Police Station Buildings, Correctional Centres, Strategic Government Facilities have been targeted and torched to aggravate tension of insecurity across the country! It is our considered opinion that citizens may have objections to the crop of bad leaders that are being taunted and paraded before the Electorate BUT THE PANACEA TO THE QUAGMIRE IS NOT THROUGH ACTS OF VANDALISM AND DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT LIVES AND PROPERTIES.

WE OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD THE ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER may object to the Military Presidential System of the ruling APC Government which has brought woes and mysteries to the larger population of Nigerians, WE still believe in legitimate democratic methods of ensuring that the agitation for RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA MUST BE THROUGH A PEACEFUL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.

It is do-able because when the right candidate is chosen it will not take him time, and within weeks of his inauguration should broker a CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY and put in motion the drafting of a UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION that will bring everybody on board. This had been our advocacy for 13 years - since ex-President Jonathan took over the reins of government in 2011! THIS DEMAND MUST NEVER BE CONDUCTED THROUGH VIOLENCE BUT THROUGH PEACEFUL ADVOCACY!

HAS MAHMOOD YAKUBU ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVES - ARE NIGERIANS IN FOR ANOTHER SHOCKER?

These professors from the Ivory tower can never be TRUSTED! They always believed that they were more cerebral than other citizens but were easily manipulated and outwitted by politicians in government! WE know that the BIMODAL VOTER ACCREDITATION SYSTEM (BIVAS), is in place to check all forms of rigging and other electoral malpractices by these bunch of desperate politicians that are parading themselves for positions of authority and power; but what about vote-buying which have been intensified and perfected from one election to another?

All security apparatuses should be deployed by PATRIOTS in government who are very interested in the SURVIVAL OF THIS GREAT NATION OF NIGERIA to checkmate any form of plans that the ENEMIES OF STATE may have up their sleeves to truncate what is left of this nascent democracy!
"Righteousness exalts s nation, but sin is a reproach to all people." (Prov. 14;34).

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]


I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon. 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Prophet of doom.

God's script.