By Reno Omokri
For many Nigerians, it came as a surprise to hear Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, a vocal promoter of the Presidential ambition of Peter Obi, appoint herself as their spokesperson and claim that Nigerians demand real-time transmission and upload of election results during her appearance today on Arise TV. Who told Mrs Ezekwesili that? Has she taken a survey of Nigerians? From where did she draw her conclusions?
Like me, Oby Ezekwesili has lived in America, the most advanced country on Earth. Even in the United States, there is no real-time transmission of election results by the Federal Election Commission. Please fact-check me.
In the United Kingdom, where both Oby Ezekwesili and I have also spent time, there is no real-time transmission of election results by the UK Electoral Commission. Again, please fact-check me.
Placing impossible standards that cannot be met by even the most technologically advanced nations on Earth on the Independent National Electoral Commission is not patriotic. It is delusional.
We remember how this same Oby Ezekwesili almost set Nigeria on fire by promoting the lie that a Yoruba Muslim Registrar General of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board wanted to cheat an underage Igbo Christian girl. That action nearly caused ethnoreligious strife in the country, but for quick action on the part of our security forces.
And then it was discovered that not only was Mmesoma Ejikeme not underage, but at 19, she was a full-blown adult, but she also forged her results sent to her electronically by JAMB and deceived millions of Nigerians.
Now, Nigerians should ask themselves this question. If a nineteen-year-old secondary school student can scam JAMB by falsifying her electronically transmitted result, imagine how much easier it would be for a dishonest and desperate politician, like Peter Obi, to manipulate electronically transmitted results.
We are, after all, talking of the same Peter Obi under whom exam miracle centres thrived whilst he was Anambra Governor. A man who was detained at Heathrow airport, London, over dodgy issues with his electronic fingerprints and identity.
The Senate of the National Assembly took the right decision in the Electoral Act amendment, and I commend Senate President Godswill Akpabio and all Senators who voted to pass the amendment.
At the end of the day, sound judgement and rational thinking must overcome emotional outbursts and sentimental posturing of the likes of Oby Ezekwesili and others, who want to set Nigeria on fire by making demands that no country on Earth can meet, in their bid to cause chaos ahead of the 2027 election.
May God bless the Senate of the National Assembly, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
.Reno Omokri writes via his Facebook page
