The obvious question is, how far has Nigerians fared so far? I know that the answers this question will attract would be varied, depending on many factors; geographical, religious, political divide. In a country like Nigeria, with its peculiar marriage, of strange bedfellows, that is not unexpected.
If America were not America, the Capitol Rotunda would have turned into a flowing tunnel of blood. It is a testament to American democracy and its allied commitments that the vast lawns of G Street SE of Capitol Hill did not become a reenactment of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, or Nigeria’s 2020 Lekki toll slaughter. Don’t get me wrong, America has not always got it right, which may explain why its founding fathers set….
So, clearly, the first difference to note is that there were three candidates with Electoral College votes in 1969 unlike now when we have only two candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Trump and his brood of lying vipers and amplified by toadies in the Republican Party who have streamed it down to a section of the base.
