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INEC has reportedly alarmed scientists by conducting an Osun election that ended on time and produced the expected winner, a development experts say may violate several known laws of Nigerian politics, including “results must first pass through spiritual collation.”
Nyesom Dwala
Osun residents are enjoying a rare weekend of surplus security after 15,000 police officers arrived for the election, forcing criminals to observe a brief democratic holiday and raising hopes that safety may one day be extended to non-voting Nigerians.
Nyesom Dwala
As INEC dusts off its 2027 timetable, experts say Nigerians can now see the next election more clearly than the roads, jobs, and light promised in the last one. Politicians have also begun their sacred pilgrimage to streets they will forget immediately after collation.
Nyesom Dwala
Political analysts have released Nigeria’s most reliable survival guide: never remain in the opposition long enough for the results to embarrass you. The new handbook includes approved phrases like “after wide consultations” and instructions for changing party colours without changing the same smiling face.
Reuben Datti
A respected elder statesman has urged Nigerians to “return to our values” at a summit on ethics, integrity and traditional virtues, despite eyewitness accounts that he personally sold most of those values in 2011 and has been paying in instalments ever since.
Reuben Datti
RINEC has unveiled Nigeria’s newest democratic innovation: Queue-Based Voting, a system that replaces ballot papers with the age-old national ritual of standing behind something and hoping for the best. Officials say it’s faster, cheaper, and already familiar to citizens.
Reuben Datti
