I'm John Batsu with my Good Colleague Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

the editor in publisher.

He is traveling.

He's in London.

We come now to the Nigerian election of 2022, concluded with the victory going to the

man representing the establishment, Bullock Tnubo.

However, there is new information that raises questions a great deal, not only about Tnubo,

but about the legitimacy, the trustworthiness, the credibility, the stability of the whole

country because of questions raised at the election and misrepresentations.

Gregory, what do we know about Tnubo?

What do we know about his presentation to the people of Nigeria?

Well, firstly, we have to understand that Nigeria is this great bell weather for Africa.

It's the largest population and the largest economy in Africa.

It has moved very deliberately past an era of coups, which were intended to save democracy

in many years past.

And the military have not intervened this time and indicated they don't want to intervene.

But the reality is that the Independent National Electoral Commission really showed that

it was bought off by the outgoing administration in order to put their candidate, Bullock Tnubo,

in the front seat of the election.

He won about a third of the votes, 36 percent of the votes.

He won a third of the states in Nigeria, but he failed to win the, something which was

stipulated in the Constitution, and he had to win not only a given number of states,

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