Femi Adesina believes that the 2023 presidential election was not so perfect but maintained that his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, remains the authentic Nigerian hero.Adesina aired his opinion via his article titled “FOR PMB, IT’S NIGERIA, AND NOTHING ELSE.”
The presidential media aide noted that in preparation for the 2023 elections, the President’s first loyalty was to the country despite that he is a party man.Adesina noted that even some APC men and women began to suspect the President because of his dogged commitment to free, fair, credible polls.
The media aide also stated the reason President Buhari unveiled his ballot papers after he voted in Daura.
full article by Adesina below;
In some other lands and climes, elections are held on weekdays, in which people cast their votes, and proceed to the office, or other places of endeavor.
But here, we must first die many times before our death, when elections approach. Many are the doomsday scenarios painted, that we do not know whether to stay in the country or show a clean pair of heels.
To japa, as the new lingo has it.The 2023 presidential and National Assembly election was not different. Some young mothers were already conceiving how they would strap their babies to their backs, and make a dash for it, when trouble flares. To where, specifically, I asked one of them.
To nowhere, she responded. “I’ll just start running.” Lol.Many were also the family heads who had started planning where they would seek refuge with their ‘entourage’ when the bubble bursts. But elections are not war, and should not be.But do you blame Nigerians? No, you shouldn’t. History has shown us that one election is progressively worse than the other in the country. Well, till President Muhammadu Buhari came in 2015.
I was already here, but too young to remember the elections that led to ‘Operation Wet e’ (douse with petrol and set ablaze) in the mid-60s, which caused severe unrest in the Western part of the country, and eventually culminated in seizure of power by the military, and dovetailed into the Civil War.The next was the 1979 election.
I was a young adult, and recall the saber-rattling, the allegations of sharp practices and stealing of votes, pockets of violence, and loss of lives in some areas.
