I think everything is going fine. Nowadays, there is more awareness; more and more people are getting interested in politics and what is going on. Politics and campaigns receive more attention and focus on television and radio, as well as in the general media. More people are interested in what the parties are doing and what they are not doing. This awareness is encouraging and exciting.
In our party, the All Progressives Congress, everywhere we go for campaigning; it’s like a carnival because people are happy with the party leaders. Generally, it’s been a good experience.
On the other hand, if you look at the history of violence around the electioneering period, you will see that there is a party that is known for unleashing violence and is often quick to rush to the media to portray itself as the victim. So if anybody is coming out to play the victim when they are actually the aggressors, I think it’s an assault on our intelligence and offensive to our sensibilities. It is an old trick, but it doesn’t work anymore. People can now easily identify people thanks to technology, and for aggressors to portray themselves as the victim is uncivilised and crude. That is not Lagos; that is not who we are.
But he just looked at the whole thing and said it would not be fine for him to be on the same podium as people who, a few hours before the debate, were found to have fouled the air, disrupted the peace of Surulere, and chased innocent Lagosians with guns, firing at them in broad daylight like that, displaying such primitiveness and bestiality. So he said it would not be right to stay on the same podium as such people.
I have just returned from Epe, and all the way from there to Alausa here, I have seen many posters of the ruling party being torn all over the place, but we are not crying like a baby who had his lollipop taken away because our candidate’s posters were torn. And then you will see somebody who doesn’t even belong to any political party who sees a poster and decides to pull it down. But to allege that some people are being paid to pull down posters is childish.
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