Catchword: 419 elections

Filed under: English, Nigeria, Politics

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: I recall that immediately after the polls last year, I had written a piece titled “Between 4/19 and 9/11” where I stated that the elections were as catastrophic in terms of its fraudulent nature (using the coincidence of date, April 19) as the September 11 (9/11) attack in United States. That was how the phrase, 419 elections, was coined and it has proved to be so apt now with the tribunal ruling that some people merely sat somewhere and wrote figures.

Article or document title:
“It Must Never Happen Again” (URL)

Author:
Olusegun Adeniyi

Article, document, publication, web site:
This Days

Publishing location:
Lagos, Nigeria

Date of publication:
Dec. 23, 2004

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