Elections and Results

My mother called me yesterday evening to tell me that they had been forced to stay at home all day because of riots in the town and the whole state. I was told that people were rioting over the results of the gubernatorial elections. It was alleged that it was rigged in favour of the incumbent. They said that the safest thing to do in such cases is to stay at home…. What can one say about that? The last time it happened was in 1983 when Chief Omoboriowo was announced as the winner of the gubernatorial elections. The violence that resulted from that is still discussed in the state. I really hope that we do not have a repeat of such violence. I was not around then, but I remember that my grandmother told me about ‘Ogun Omoboriowo’, literally ‘Omoboriowo’s war’.