2023: Nigerians React As NIPOST Asked To ‘Get Ready For Mail-In Ballot’

By Tayo OLU On Nov 6, 2020

The former senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani, has sparked twitter reactions after asking the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) to prepare to handle mail-in ballots during the country’s 2023 general elections.

Mail-in ballot, otherwise known as postal voting, vote-by-mail or vote from home, is the system of voting where ballot papers are distributed to voters and returned by postal mail after voting.

The system is different from the one being practiced in Nigeria, where voters queue at polling units to cast their votes.

Sani’s call for vote-by-mail in Nigeria’s 2023 elections came after about 94 million Americans were said to have voted via mail-in ballots in the ongoing U.S. presidential elections.

NIPOST get ready for mail in Ballot. ????‍♂️
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) November 6, 2020

But funny reactions trailed the former senator’s call for NIPOST to handle mail-in voting for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2023, with one twitter user saying: “Maybe you want your votes to get delivered after swearing in ceremony.”

Below are some of the reactions:

No be only nipost, nah Nicon, ordinary envelope to the next street, your mail go lost… we go queue, no worry
— Steinz (@Sir_Steinz) November 6, 2020

Which NIPOST…? Hennnn trouble stay gege yanga come wake am..LOlx
— Reno Baloteli (@Cliffbalogun) November 6, 2020

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???? no one will receive the mail ballot but the ballot papers will be sent back to INEC with the candidate…. you as the voter will wonder how you voted
— Moh'd Buhari (@MohammedDBuhari) November 6, 2020

Actually India have stand alone voting machines that works like baba ijebu betting machine highly secured and impossible to rig but our politicians won't use it ,because it removes the ability to rig from them GEJ tried to introduce it but the northern senators refused
— Agu lazarus (@Agulazaruss) November 6, 2020

Ah! Tragedy of the highest order. Which road will NIPoST pass from one village to the other? It will be an easy rig. With a lot of counterfeit ballot papers and thugs to hijacked NIPOST vans. Sanitise the system first, den mail-in OR electronic vote is possible.
— Olusola Ayeni (@Ayenisola) November 6, 2020

Hahaha.. Senator u are very funny.. Thank you for lightening my mood today….. This is the best joke of the century….. NIPOST will be destined for ???? ???? if they try it
— Yachat Anga (@yachatanga) November 6, 2020

How many time will I tell you those thing no go work here.. Before you post self you must tip, before your ballot count, you must tip..
— ADETAYO OLUWASEGUN (@Ikupayiti) November 6, 2020

Only ruling party ballots will be delivered, even before voting is concluded.
— “We The People” (@JoshOnu) November 6, 2020

Please stop it, the counting will never end, another election will still meet us and we might still be counting the previous one.
— Adebanjo Taiwo (@TaiwoSAdebanjo) November 6, 2020

Swell! Half of the ballot will be lost in transit, one quarter wil end up in refuse dumps and soak-aways, and the remaining quarter will be up for grabs! All hail NIPOST!
— M J Balogun (@balogunjide1) November 6, 2020

I want to borrow loan from NIGERIA budget. I would pay back as soon as the empowerment program profits me
— Capt dav (@Cityboy711) November 6, 2020

That means our election will last for a whole Year with some people's votes never making it to INEC office
— Iwu Davidson Arthur (@IwuDavidson) November 6, 2020

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