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                                                       THE COUNTS There's been lots of counting where I come from - counting of votes for they that want to be president and they who want to be parliamentarians. Counting of seats lost and/or won. Counts of "rejected ballot papers", counts of constituencies and percentage of voters that actually voted. Some even counting down Christmas. Counts of blah blah blah. Well, some of us have just been reading. Reading newspaper reports (with the standard propaganda, lobbying, campaigning, biased journalism), reading statuses on Twitter, Facebook and other so-called social media to keep up with the process. So after quite a nervous few days for myself and fellow countrymen (c'mon admit it), the results have finally come out without much brouhaha. Fair enough, there was the incident at Dzorwulu were voters surrounded and damn near tore down a house where ballot boxes were being kept overnight. There was the aspiring parliame