Yeah INEC chairman has spoken. Avalanche of blames for him for not making adequate contingency plans for the conduct of the elections. No one seems to address the maximum time election materials can be at their various locations before election day.
This ugly situation must have arisen as a result of INEC trying to complete delivery within a short space of time. All these for the fear that Nigerians might try to compromise the process. In normal situations, the materials could be at their locations even for a month before election date with little fear of tampering.
I am sure most of us had bidden the harmattan goodbye for the year, only for it to rear its head again some days ago. I feel strong that INEC understandably couldn’t have factored the return of harmattan into its logistics plan. These, in addition to some possible implementation inefficiencies here and there must have brought us to where we are.
While we all endure the pains caused by the postponement, blame INEC, we should also remember that we need to become good Nigerians so that the managers of our processes are not pushed to the wall in order to deliver what ordinarily would have been a simple routine service.
