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Table of Contents Before the February 25, 2023, General Election During the Election – 2023 After the Election – 2023 The Verdicts – 2023 Moving Forward The insouciant and nonchalant comportment of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the face of angst that has inbuilt despair among Nigerians is the reason for writing about Nigeria’s February 25, 2023, presidential election, and the outcome. Yes, it’s seven months after the election was conducted by INEC and the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) verdicts in Abuja on September 6, 2023. Some argued that the entire election was marred with violence, rigging, and corrupt practices and some others argued that it was the freest election ever held in Nigeria, by Nigerians (not ‘Nigeriens’) and for Nigerians. After the results were announced and Mr Ahmed Bola Tinubu was declared winner, his opponents filed petitions alleging that it was a rigged system. In this writing, an attempt will be made to describe

Table of Contents What is a Tyranny? What is Commonsense? The gradation of tyrannies in Africa Tyranny of the Elites The Tyranny of Grifters The Tyranny of Ends Inoculation of Corruption or Inculcate Common Sense The political, economic, and social situations of Africa in general and Nigeria in particular have provoked my interest in writing about tyrannies and common sense. Africa has plentiful tyrannies but only scanty common sense. Their leaders have limited knowledge to process sense-perceptions, imaginations or even remember histories. The narrative is about a variety of tyrannical inclinations, reasonings, or duties as against what comes naturally like common sense. To start, I would like to give the dictionary definitions of tyranny and common sense so that you can figure out how common sense contrasts tyrannical inclinations or reasonings.    What is a Tyranny? Most dictionaries, such as Britannica, Cambridge, Oxford, and Merriam-Webster consider tyranny as “any political