The Price of a Bad Vote: What Your Vote Actually Costs You: Full Edition

What Your Vote Actually Costs You

Mama Nkechi has sold rice at Daleko Market for thirty years. She keeps a ledger. In 2015, a 50kg bag of rice cost ₦8,000. By January 2025 it was ₦120,000 and her best customer, who used to buy five bags for her restaurant, could only afford one. Tunde the printer in Ibadan spends ₦75,000 per month on diesel — not because electricity is naturally scarce but because a government that needed his vote in 2019 found it easier to give him a generator subsidy than to build a power plant. The Price of a Bad Vote calculates exactly what four years of wrong governance costs the ordinary Nigerian, translated out of the abstraction of "policies" and into the specific language of food prices, fuel queues, hospital visits, and Japa debts.