THE 2019 ELECTIONS AND THE CALL FOR RE-INTRODUCTION OF HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS III.

THAT WE MAY NOT REPEAT THE FATAL MISTAKES OF THE CHEERLEADING PARTISANS AND JESTERS OF YESTER-YEARS. With the Rivers State gubernatorial election yet inchoate, with the deluge of petitions before the Electoral Tribunals, and with the plethora of allegations against the Militarized polls, the stench of the 2019 elections remains. As we hail, and or bemoan the process depending on what prejudice blinds one. The truth is that NIGERIA remains a republic of puppets and puppeteers. The truth is that politricktians have snatched the electoral process from the electorate. The truth is that those who count the vote decide the polls and not the voters. The truth is that the refrain in the public space is, 'I was rigged out', 'He was rigged in'. And the truth is that it may take months, if not years to rebuild the little trust we had in our electoral process. The 1963/64 electoral malfeasance and the post election dialogue dwarfed serious issues of State such that national trust and brotherhood atrophied, making the events of 1966 and 1967 inevitable. 1983 was a sordid repeat of that history. I pray it doesn't happen again. Today, rather than admit that we all failed in how badly we lowered the electoral bar, some are busy defending the untoward. And some are busy in Churches and Mosques celebrating tainted mandates. Sad. As the debate rages, no one talks about the resurgent banditry and killings in Zamfara. No one is talking about the 1.4b paid to design a 12storey DPR Complex that will cost 35b, figures globally illogical and impossible. No one is talking about the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. And no one is talking about the well-being of the masses. We are indeed a people and a Country like no other. So when the ides of 1966/1983 returns, we must take responsibility for ignoring the forewarning of history. CONCLUDED. Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia JNR. #COUNTRYFIRST.