The first was President Samuel K. Doe, whose widespread injustice, mismanagement, corruption and wickedness (massive extra-judicial killings) led the country to civil war. The Supreme Court also mandated NEC to publish the redone FRR across the country; and that no one whose name is not on the final roll should vote. It was the serious tampering by NEC of this FRR that primarily led to the electoral fraud. This, the Daily Observer said in its Tuesday editorial, was a clear and open defiance of the Supreme Court’s mandate. And we plead with all the ECOWAS leaders to be reminded of the age-old dictum, “A stitch in time saves nine.”

Source: Daily Observer December 15, 2017 02:15 UTC