The e-Registration of Nigerian voters was meant to be novel and fault-reducing. So far, it has been faults galore! Somehow, there is no shortage of complaints all over: from bad batteries to insufficient equipment, from inadequate training to invisible registration booths, from time wasting to power failure, and a general level of disillusionment.
If these were teething problems, they amount to worrisome signals and portends. No one is in a position to know what a failed exercise will look like; but we really don't want to know. It will be too dangerous, too self-destructing, too not-to-be-conjectured that we should just make this thing work! There are now strident calls for a prompt return to "manual registration".
I'm yet to join the nay-sayers, but you really can't flatly fault them. Turn on the TV day or night and see the unflattering reports with heart-wrenching visuals! Open the newspapers and you confront plenty bad news with photos and quotes! In all, the media is full of citizens lampooning, lamenting, lambasting and languishing.....
Who is listening? But more important: Who is ACTING???
2007 Transition is NOT negotiable. NOT!
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