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Alas! The 2007 Nigerian elections into the house of assembly gubernatorial house of representative and the presidential election are over. There was tension everywhere during the election and I thank God it’s over now.
To say the election was hitch free is a big lie as the elections kept most Nigerians indoors, not knowing whether they will get a knock on their door by thugs or will be shot down by a gun. The other day, on television I saw the story of a man who had had just finished voting and was waiting for his son to finish voting. But when the son was tired of staying in line, he went to explain things to his father only for the boy to get to his father and be shot down by a policeman who was said to be doing his duty and according to him was trying to get the ballot box from the thugs. Can you imagine the pain the father went through seeing his son shot directly in front of him? This is just one out of the very many incidences that occur during elections.
The election has brought pain to some people and joy to others. Today the newly elected president was announced, though to many of us, the results were not a shock. "Musa yar aduwa is the newly elected president of Nigeria" Didn’t come to us as a shock because 9 out of 10 Nigerians expected that even before the elections.
The way he got there is not my problem but please if any one knows him help me tell him that he needs to make life much easier for Nigerians. We need portable water so we do not spend the little money we get to cure cholera, we need good education so that we know how to handle the boreholes when they are there and we need stable electricity. We are tired of empty promises.
Before I end, I want to thank the independent national electoral commission for Nigeria because there was an election and I also want to grieve with the police in the state of Kano for the loss of the deputy commissioner and his wife and others killed in that bloody attack.
THERE IS STILL HOPE FOR NIGERIA.
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I AM NGUAVESE DIO I LIVE IN NIGERIA AND I WRITE POEMS. I AM ALSO AN ACTIVIST FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE. IN MY LEISURE TIME I DO A LITTLE READING TO KNOW WHATS HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD AND I ALSO SING. GOD IS MY DRIVING FORCE.
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