Avoid do - or- die politics - SSS, others

Date: 2013-07-30

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.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Okin Group     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Sanusi Abubakar     Law School Scholarship     Dele Belgore     Baruba     Oyin-Zubair     Abdulwahab Ololele     Kunle Suleiman     Ahmad Belgore     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Abdullateef Abdussalam     Sheikh Alimi     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Buhari     Mahe Abdulkadir     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Oyun     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Rafiu Ajakaye     Halimat Yusuf     Razaq Atunwa     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Bayo Ajia     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Saliu Oluwole     Kunle Okeowo     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Farouk Salim     Mutawali     Omoniyi Ayinla     Tafida Of Ilorin     Kazeem Adekanye     Yahaya Muhammad     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Marufat Oladosu     Aso Ofi     Ahman Patigi     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Garba Idris Ajia     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Smart School     Kumbi Titiloye     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Ilorin West     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Yakubu Dogara     Bahago     Fola Consultant     JUSUN     Saliu Tunde Bello     National Broadcasting Commission     Gbemisola Saraki     Fatai Olodo     Kola Shittu     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Tosin Saraki     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Kayode Ogunlowo     Kwara State Fire Service     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Raji AbdulRasaq     Elerinjare     Ayo Adeyemi     Assayomo     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Shuaibu Yaman     College Of Education     Babs Iwarere     Valsolar Consortium     Oke-Ero     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Mufti Of Ilorin     Fawenu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     AbdulRauf Keji     Rotimi Oyedepo     Mutawalle     Afolayan     Rasaq Jimoh     Adeniyi Ojo     Post Utme     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     The Herald     Naira Redesign     Balogin Alanamu     Omu Aran     NITDA     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Oyun     Dairo Kunle Paul     Tunde Akanbi     Share-Tsaragi     Olabode George Towoju     Amusa Bello     Harafat E. Mukadam     Temitope Ogunbanke     Yashikira     Sidikat Akaje     Hakeem Idris     Al-Adaby     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Aso-ofi     Jide Oyinloye     Olugbense     Manzuma     Kwha.gov.ng     AIT Ilorin     Okanlawon Musa     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Oya State     Bank Of Industry     Sam Onile     Wole Oke     Ishaq Oloyede     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Amos Justus Sayo     Olatunji Ibrahim     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Bola Magaji     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Isiaq Khadeejah     Rashidi Yekini     Agor     TIIDELab     Ilorin Like-Minds     Makama     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Kayode Issa     Shaaba Lafiagi     ER-KANG     Ayodele Shittu     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Elewu     TVC Female National Debate     Adamu Attah     Convocation Ceremonies     Raimi Iyanda     CACOVID Palliatives     Samuel Adedoyin     Iliasu     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Osi     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Bello John Olanrewaju     Kolawole Bashirat     Leke Ogungbe