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419 elections

419 elections
 n.— «I recall that immediately after the polls last year, I had written a piece titled “Between 4/19 and 9/11″ where I stated that the elections were as catastrophic in terms of its fraudulent nature (using the coincidence of date, April 19) as the September 11 (9/11) attack in United States. That was how the phrase, 419 elections, was coined and it has proved to be so apt now with the tribunal ruling that some people merely sat somewhere and wrote figures.» —“It Must Never Happen Again” by Olusegun Adeniyi This Days (Lagos, Nigeria) Dec. 23, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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