The independent National Electoral Commission has sensitized Nigerians and the 2023 election is such a big deal in Nigeria that no one wants to be left out.
As of last Friday, INEC has registered about 12 million new voters. And yet many more Nigerians, willing to vote in next year’s election remain unregistered and this is why.
At the LEA Primary School in Kubwa Area Council of the federal capital territory, there is a Nazi Germany racket going on. INEC officials walk into anxious voters to negotiate fees for quick and easy registration.
Well, as Nigeria rightly celebrates the massive response to the registration exercise, there are many more who will not exercise their franchise not because INEC did not do the right things nor that the electorate did not show interest, but because corruption put a hurdle in the way of a process that should be simple and straight forward.