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 == THE NIGERIAN POLITICKING GAME == 

 The Nigerian Politicking Game: A satirical view of the random issues of Nigerian Politics in the 2015 Elections. 
 Nigeria plays a big role in Africa, setting examples in many aspects of governance and administration, which also includes politics. Other African nations and even, the advanced nations always look forward to the outcome of the electoral process of Africa's largest economy. They have no choice except they don't want a share of the economical benefits of our land flowing with milk and honey. Someone said that, ""If Nigeria sneezes, other African countries would catch cold."" I just hope she doesn't sneeze because, if she does, I'm afraid, she would have to nurse about 54 children with Pro cold and Mixagrip. 
 Issues of politics and the electoral process: In some particular order, let's review certain issues that surrounded, influenced and in fact, determined the outcomes before, during, and after the 2015 elections: 
 - Campaign tours:  
 No doubt, the Nigerian politics this time around has been escalated to a stretching extent. As political parties set off their road map touring across all regions in the clamour for one thing. Yes, one single but extremely important thing, our 'votes'. We saw hundreds of campaign organizations in the flagship of different parties working it out to get the support of the populace. One thing is for sure, if your campaign train isn't loaded with goodies, you got nothing to sell. Some adopted cash goodies, while some used food and material items and a few others, well, gave what they had to offer, which was, the manifesto of promises. That been said, what baffled me was the excessive rate of media and social network advertorials which ran into billions of naira. Trust me, that was the best time ever to own a media house  because if you know how to ply your trade, you will make your entire set up money and even more in a few months. If you ask me, what these guys read from their manifestos are not too different from what others have been reading to us in time past. They make heaven and earth promises but pay lip service when they get into office. If all previous manifestos were actually fulfilled, what we would be having now will be new sets of manifestos to tackle new developmental areas. For instance, instead of still hearing promises of power supply, good roads, health, education etc, we would be hearing things like, promises of valentine money alerts for boys and subsidized price of Brazilian hair the girls. I know it's hilarious but if all the major issues were tackled, what would be left now would be improvements, maintenance and other minor or developing issues. 
 -Social and news media: 
 For me, this was the most interesting part. If you get easily bored with Tv news, or haven't outgrown your childhood frustration when your dad suddenly grabs the remote and tunes to the news at 9, then it's high time you got your apartment and buy your own LCD. Just kidding but I guess youths are very much involved now, and even if you don't like the Tv news, you could at least get news feed on your facebook page while checking your friend's latest updates of lies and hypes. This is no doubt one of the busiest times for the social media. You are sure of getting headlines faster now on Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and various News app. There were a lot of news and discussion threads and forums of mixed reactions, criticism and counter criticism from supporters, often accompanied by funny, but sometimes taken too far photoshoped images and caricatures of public figures who spits anything sensitive or, acts in a way that raise eyebrows. Oh, I almost forgot, we learnt new words like Orubebe and Jega(ed) . These words trended the social networks, as many people turned what would have been a national disaster into a widespread online jocular gimmicks of grammatical expressions. Well, what really caught my fancy was the use of social media such as Facebook, Blackberry Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, Blog, MySpace, YouTube and Instagram as an important means of electioneering and policing election results. Just imagine your father trying to call a REC to change the results in his favour and you bump into him in the sitting room with the iphone 6 he bought for you to show him he only got 12 percent of vote cast. He will either disown you or break the phone. You should have seen how we sat down to compare the figures already on our phones with whatever those Professors had to read out and everything tallied. My aunt couldn't help but to add her exclamation of sarcasm, saying, ""Chai! Diaris God in this results we are sharing ooo."" Come to think of it, we've been hearing talks about electronic voting system that will finally rid out rigging ""patapata."" So, I think the social media has indirectly experimented the beauty of the electronic voting system since the idea is to have everyon