Avoid do - or- die politics - SSS, others
Director, Department of State Services, Kwara State, Mr. Williams Ologba; former state Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association Prof. Muhammed Akanbi; and a lecturer, Department of Business Administration, University of Ilorin, Dr. Umar Gunu, have urged politicians to avoid violence in the forthcoming elections.
They spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Monday at a seminar on 'Free, fair, peaceful and credible election as an essential ingredient for good governance.'
The seminar was organised by the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission.
Ologba, who was represented by an official of the SSS, F.B. Michael, said playing the right politics, by ensuring the enthronement of internal party democracy as well as addressing issues of insecurity, were germane to the attainment of free and fair elections.
"There should be a paradigm shift from 'do-or-die politics' to embracing the ideals of good sportsmanship; from selfish disposition to selfless service; from the urge to acquire more to making sacrifice; from partisanship to nationalism; and of course, from unpatriotic acts to patriotism for a better nation," the SSS boss said.
Akanbi urged the political class in Kwara to put national interest above personal or party considerations by eschewing political or electoral violence, lawlessness, intolerance and politics of material inducement.
"One way of removing violence from politics is by ridding it of election rigging and the lure of financial profits, wealth, power, and prestige. And that can only be done by reassigning priority to capability, integrity, and virtue as he criteria for selecting people's representatives in government," Akanbi said.
Gunu advised politicians to commit themselves to providing credible and responsible leadership for the various stakeholders engaged in the electoral process.
He added that the politicians should support the sustenance of enabling environment for the preparation, conduct and acceptance of elections.
"If our politicians, individually and collectively, resolve to be principled, and play by the game from the level of the party through general elections based on the provisions of the law, we shall have credible elections," Gunu said.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Aisha Ahman Pategi Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road Forgo Battery National Democratic Congress Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi Ita-Nmo Market Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir Lateef Alagbonsi Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade Issa Baba Veterinary Teaching Hospital Kwara State Pension Board Lawal Arinola Kudirat Fareedah Dankaka Kwara Apc Share-Tsaragi Mansurat Amuda-Kannike Christopher Tunji Ayeni Yusuf Abdulraheem Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Omotoso Funmilayo Braithwaite Olabanji Orilonishe Kubra Kazum Police Commissioner Plat Technologies Limited Ibrahim Bio March 28 Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi Alaro Taiwo Joseph Iqra Books Yusuf Amuda Gobir Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development FERMA Oja-Oba Samari Baba-Isale Monthly Sanitation Exercise Sunday Fagbemi Charcoal Rotimi Oyedepo Suleman Abubakar Bolaji Aladie Elesie Of Esie SDP Pacify Labs David Oyerinola Adedunmoye Vasolar Consultoria Dairo Kunle Paul Trader Moni Alfa Modibo Belgore Yahaya A Paniyaro Adedipe KW-GIS Kudirat Arinola Lawal Sheriff Olanrewaju Eghe Igbinehin Omar Gambari Yekeen Alabi CBT Adamu Jemilat-Baki Wasiu Onidugbe Shehu Jimoh Ilorin General Hospital Alfa Modibbo Belgore Saka Asiat Ayinke Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory Muideen Olaniyi Alalade Mamman Saba Jibril John Dara Just Law Forum Olatomiwa Williams Kayode Zubair Labour Party Tsado Manman

