Gerrymandering, as the culture is in America politics, is the deliberate and systematic tampering with electoral maps, with a goal to permanently expunging a certain group of voters, mostly African American electorates, from electoral districts where they could impact the total vote counts, or specifically, where they could stop Republicans candidates from winning an election.
In Nigeria, they don't tamper with the electoral maps. However, certain communities, cities, villages, and or polling units are invaded during an ongoing election to disrupt the process and jeopardize the outcome of the vote counts. Thus, Gerrymandering in Nigeria is the deliberate disruption of the electoral process at the Pooling Units and the indiscriminate vandalization or burning of voting materials and scaring away of potential voters by sponsored Thugs or Agents where a particular candidate is likely to secure the most vote counts. It is perpetrated, with a view to compelling the INEC to annul or cancel the entire votes in the affected units or districts.
Consequently, the affected candidate cannot benefit from votes that have been destroyed or declared canceled by INEC due to the chaotic situations manufactured by Thugs or Agents who are sponsored or sympathetic to a particular candidate. It is deliberate. It is purposeful. And it is Gerrymandering by other means. And that is the nature of the deprivations that Mr. Atiku Abubakar is contending with right now, especially in most of the states in the Middle Belt and the entire Geographical South. If Gerrymandering is condemnable in America, it must be condemned in Nigeria. It may be Atiku/Obi today, it may be you or your party tomorrow. In any event, it is the Nigerian democracy that is in peril.
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