A REAPPRAISAL OF HITHERTO EXPERT APPRAISALS OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI
The political analysts, bookmakers and pundits who have put down their checks and outcome of their ideas on the 2023 Presidential Election have gone one way. It has therefore become unavoidably necessary to reexamine their minds, factors, facts hypotheses and premises and thereby making sure to find either corroboration or falsification of their pontifications. Let us tell ourselves some particular realities about their deposits to wit; 1. They all have done their analysis based on very wrong hypotheses. They are all wrong. 2. Their various experiments ran on sentiments and are therefore illogical and non sequitur. They held their heads up on what seems to be popular sentiments since they hinged their minds on the views by majority of partisan folks. These predictors willingly went on committing the fallacy of argumentum ad populum. 3. All their predictions so far have remained premature as many factors that will impact the election are yet to be activated. They excluded middles a...