Election has no Meaning – A Re-Appraisal of the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria
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This is the outcome of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Faculty of Arts Conference on the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges which took place between 27-29 June 2023.The Nigerian 2023 General Elections came with high expectations especially with the introduction of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and the passing into law of the Electoral Act 2022. The persistent assurance of both the Presidency and the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) of transparent electoral process encouraged mass participation during the election. The gloomy economic situation in the country, insecurity in the form of kidnapping for ransom, terrorism also heightened people’s desire to enthrone good governance through active participation in the electoral process. The Nigerian youths who have been on the margin of economic malaise appear to ‘take back their country’ through social media mobilisation in the 2023 general elections. Unfortunately, the outcome of the elections appears disappointing and considered to be the worst since the return of Nigeria to democratic rule in 1999. The manner the Judiciary handled electoral petitions felt below minimal standard and thus exacerbated more problems for democratic experiment in Nigeria. Election indeed has no meaning.
MATHIAS CHUKWUDI ISIANI holds his Baccalaureate and Master degree from Nigeria. He is currently a PhD student and a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship Awardee at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Africana Studies, USA
PAUL OBI-ANI, is a Professor of Political History with the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Currently, he serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and was formerly Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was formerly the Vice President representing Southeast Nigeria at the Historical Society of Nigeria. His published books include Shehu Shagari’s Presidency, 1979-1983: An Appraisal, Markudi, Aboki Publishers, 2010 and Post Civil War Political and Economic Reconstruction in Igboland, Nsukka, Great AP Publishers, 2009
UCHE UWAEZUOKE OKONKWO holds a PhD degree in History and Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was appointed Associate Professor of History and Diplomatic Studies at the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria and was later appointed Becker Freidman Visiting Senior Research Associate and Scholar in residence at Kelly Centre Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, USA. He was a Pre-Conference Guest Lecturer at the Centre for Africana Studies 2024 at Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is the author of over 20 books, 100 articles in journals and chapters in book and over 200 conference papers. Uche’s research interest is in the field of Social and Imperial History, an area of study he had acquired expertise in teaching and research at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Uche have received travel grants and fellowships to many countries and Universities from esteemed organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Spencer Foundation, Volvo Foundation, University of Bayeruth African Multiple Cluster, the Dutch Foundation for the History of Technology, the Society for the History of Technology in Africa (SHOT) and the University of Lagos Graduate Fellowship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors …………………………………………1
Chapter One: Elections and the Criminalisation of the State Institutions: The Nigerian Example
Paul Obi-Ani, Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo & Mathias Chukwudi Isiani………………………………………… 7
Chapter Two: Cashless Policy, Naira Notes Re-Design and Nigeria’s 2023 General Election
Ewa Okoro Onu………………………………………… 15
Chapter Three: Chatham House and Electoral Neocolonialism in Nigeria: Lessons From the 2023 Elections
Ambrose Onu…………………………………………31
Chapter Four: Electoral Offenders in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
John Ilemona PhD …………………………………………51
Chapter Five: The Dynamics and Pattern of Citizens’ Political Participation in the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria
Ahmed Ladi Ibrahim PhD & Muhammed Sultan Ibrahim………………………………………… 91
Chapter Six: Addressing Muslim-Muslim Tickets (Mmt) in the 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria: Insights From Newspaper Editorials
Nwaezeihenatuoha, Peter Chukwughalum…………………………………………113
Chapter Seven: The Electoral Process of 2023 General Elections and Popper-Nomics As A Model For Nigeria
Okenyi Kenneth Sunday PhD …………………………………………129
Chapter Eight: The Playwright as an Agent of Electoral Reformation
Cajetan Nwosu Aneto & Glory Anjorin Olaife …………………………………………145
Chapter Nine: A Subtextual Implicature of Selected Political Prophecies on 2023 Elections
Regina Ekwelibe PhD…………………………………………163
Chapter Ten: The Impact of Digitalised Evangelism in 2023 General Elections in Nigeria
Emmanuel Kelechi Okafor PhD & Michael Okafor PhD ………………………………………… 177
Chapter Eleven: Electoral Malpractice in Nigeria: An Impediment to True Democracy and Political Growth
Secunda Chizobam Onwuharaonye PhD, Uchenna Ebere &
Ambrouse Oluchukwu Abaneme PhD…………………………………………195
Chapter Twelve: Obidient Movement and the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria
Kamsy Lawrentia Chudi-Okafor …………………………………………213
Chapter Thirteen: A Critical Assessment of the Judiciary and the 2023 General Election
Glory Uchechi Nwakanma …………………………………………231