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On The Runup To The 2023 Elections; Have we learnt our lessons?

Photo by Ayanfe Olarinde on Unsplash It's been a while here; I have been busy with some other things, so I have largely slacked in updating this space. Amidst everything, I decided to do this little opinion piece, and I would honestly love to hear as much feedback as possible when I put the full stop. Over the past few days, the social space has been swamped with different opinions, commentaries, etc. All of which border on who would be the next president of this country for the next four (4) or eight (8) years based on the zoning agreement. By the time you read this, the country's major political parties have held their primary elections, and their different choices have been placed before us.  These past few weeks, we have all seen that the political space in Nigeria is an obscenely expensive and dirty scene. It is a place where only those with guts can successfully navigate. We have all watched as party delegates were bought, and everything became severely "Dollarized,...