EKITI ELECTIONS: AN EYE OPENER TO THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS

As the Ekiti election is drawing to a conclusive end today, Satuday, July 14, 2018, INEC should, as a matter of  necessity, conduct an objective SWOT analysis on the conduct of Ekiti election against the forthcoming general elections in 2019 to avoid the lapses that attended today's election in Ekiti.

It should be expected that INEC would choose to be proactive and not reactive in its administrative approach to Nigerians' expectations of 2019 before, during and after the elections.

It would be unforgivable if electorates are disenfranchised due to faulty card readers as experienced in some local governments during the ongoing Ekiti elections today.

Law enforcement agents should wake up to their duties just as INEC and other umpires should not hesitate to apply the full weight of the law on any political party that indulge in the brazen act of vote buying, "pay-as-you-vote", or "prepaid-but-show-evidence" activities which bedevilled some polling booths in the election of today.

Electorates should wake up to the fact that they and their future are worth more than a bottle of coke as served in some polling booths today or a token of 400 naira received for voting.

Lessons of today are corrective media for the betterment of TOMORROW. A word is enough for the wise.

God bless Ekiti State, God bless Nigeria.

__'Wale Oladokun.