Election has no Meaning A Re-Appraisal of the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria

PAUL OBI-ANI, is a Professor of Political History with the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Currently, he serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and was formerly Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was formerly the Vice President representing Southeast Nigeria at the Historical Society of Nigeria. His published books include Shehu Shagari's Presidency, 1979-1983: An Appraisal, Markudi, Aboki Publishers, 2010 and Post Civil War Political and Economic Reconstruction in Igboland, Nsukka, Great AP Publishers, 2009

UCHE UWAEZUOKE OKONKWO PhD (Lagos) is a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) For Economics and Scholar in Residence at Harris School of Public Policy, Kelly Center at the University of Chicago, USA. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has authored and edited over 12 books and monographs including We drank Palm Wine until they arrived: A Socio Economic History of Alcohol in Southeastern Nigeria (New Jersey: Goldline and Jacobs, 2017) and the lead author of Witchcraft and Nigerian Historiography (New Jersey: Goldline and Jacobs, 2024)

MATHIAS CHUKWUDI ISIANI holds his Baccalaureate and Master degree from Nigeria. He is currently a PhD student and a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship Awardee at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Africana Studies, USA