VOTERS' SENTIMENT EVALUATION -- VSE -- PROJECT: THE PATH TO MAKING NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY VALUABLE
WELCOME to the Voters’ Sentiment Evaluation – VSE – page. What you are about to do, answering the questions below, may be considered as a cause to help Nigeria. These questionnaires are being administered by a Nigerian based organisation with the intention to get the prevailing perspectives and attitudes of Nigerians to the coming elections in order to prepare a model for establishing that level of public awareness on the values of the election with relevance to powers of their rights to the choice of party candidate and the consequential government to come therefrom.
All that you are required to do is to answer the questions by clicking on the comments segment and simply put in your chosen options in serial letters separated by comer. In other words, a,a,c,…n you enter stand for answers to 1,2,3,…n. There is, surely, a collective future reward for all participant when finally begin to vote in anticipation of good leadership in every election cycle. Now let’s go there!
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AHEAD of the 2023 General Elections a Nigerian based organisation has commenced an election-based project tagged Voters’ Sentiment Evaluation (VSE), aimed at establishing the degree of relationship between the ballot casting and the value of democracy in Nigeria.
Speaking to Civics Weekly on what the project entails and the purpose, the project coordinator, M.O. Shutti-Jimoh, said a discrete investigation conducted by the firm has shown the need for Nigerians to know whether there are actually voting in the hope to explore and exploit the maximum value inherent in democracy or they are voting for other reasons that actually include “devaluation of balloting power”.
According to her, balloting power, which is the hallmark of every democracy, is “devalued”, when voters replace anticipation of good leadership from an election with discretions of pecuniary interest that turn out to be the primary influence of their momentary decision to cast their votes.
She said: “The staggered local elections in Nigeria would have come as eyes opener for any right thinking person to know if Nigeria is getting it right with her progressive development of democracy. It is one thing for the electorate to vote in anticipation of good leadership as an outcome in an election. It is also one thing that they see election day as a jamboree with the euphoria of other sentiments that are at best a prospect of devaluation of their voting power. The last five staggered gubernatorial Elections in Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti and the recent Osun states in the last 20 months appear to be following a pattern that worth to be investigated, especially when the outcome of the elections have been acknowledged to be the true reflection of the people’s wish”.
She also explained that while the project’s algorithm follows the pattern of opinion poll because it involves the use of questionnaires to extract the required information from participating individuals, it was not intended for a guess work or pre-determination of the possible outcome of the 2023 general elections.
She said: “As for purpose of the project, it is far from one trying to second guess the electorate or an intention to predict an outcome of the coming election before the casting of ballot as such opinion poll are often taken to mean, especially in an election season like this. What we are interested in here is to determine what level of awareness the electorate are putting into their decision of choice making.
“It appears that Nigerians are excited about their new found powers to determine who becomes their leader for a period of four years. But the question remains whether they are willing to utilize this power judiciously to improve their social and economic wellbeing through improved standard of living, accessible only through good leadership. Where they fail to do this, it means they are not ready to explore the true values of democracy.
“When rigging of elections was the order of the day, the country was said to be running false democracy. That was taken to be a problem where the elite was the culprit because they do not want the electorate votes to count. But now that the problem has been solved with the INEC BIVAS, we cannot come to blame the politicians and the elite again when the values of democracy continues to elude them?
“This is what the VSE is trying to see and evaluate for a solution”.
On the modus operand, the project coordinator explains: “The process involves any members of the public that has attained the voting age to answer just about 10 to 12 questions without necessarily telling us who they are by way of revealing their identities. The questioners shall be administered on both online and offline. The off line is meant to serve the section of public that cannot go online. We are particularly using this channel to get market women and men involved. Our field workers are already on the streets.
“We are, by this notice, appealing to every Nigerian to help us make this project a success. Just go to the designated site online – www.civicsweeklyonline.blogspot.com – click on VSE – Voter’s Sentiment Evaluation page and answer the questions there on the comments segment by simply putting your chosen option in serial letters separated by comer. In other words, a,a,c,…n you enter stand for answers to 1,2,3,…n. There is, surely, a collective future reward for all participant when finally begin to vote in anticipation of good leadership in every election cycle.
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