Please Vote.., Thank You.

Sometimes  “we the people” is confused with “we the people, who give a shit”. As Nigerians, because we do not believe in the process, we tend to take ourselves out of the election entirely. There is no time when your right as a citizen of this country will be greater. We must exercise our right to choose. You must have a say in the type of government that will represent you.


Your right to vote should be precious to you when you are backing an underdog candidate, just as when your guy is a sure winner. Democracy is the greatest gift mankind has given itself. It is the only system of government that tries to create (and equate) equality amongst men via a singular act of civic duty. It is extremely important we participate in the registration drive, we must go out, get registered to vote. We must encourage our neighbors, friends, family, anyone whom we can reach. We must let them know, they must go out and register to vote.

Your vote, is you saying, “ this is where I stand”.

It says, “on this, my voice will be heard”.

The bane of corruption in our country cannot be used as a reason for apathy anymore. Americans say, you have to be in it, to win it. You can’t be complaining about the lack of decent roads, steady power supply, corruption, mismanagement, and all the various evil melancholies that bedevil our country without being involved. Today’s story is that a batch of newly arrived voter registration data machines have been stolen at the airport, which would have been funny, if it was not so tragic. Who steals voter registration machines except someone trying to register voters, abi? But we can’t let ourselves be defeated even before the bell was rung for the fight to begin.

The last INEC election timetable gave only 14 days for voter registration (voter registration will take place between January 15 and January 29). Considering the level of illiteracy in our country, this timetable to me could not have been engineered to encourage maximum participation from the populace. This is an incredibly short time for a nation of 120 million (or more) people to gather itself. But regardless of all that, please encourage everybody you know to go out and get registered to vote.

Who you vote for is your business, the fact that you voted is all our businesses.