Guber Candidate Harps On Peaceful Polls

As the general elections draws nearer, Governorship candidate of the Legacy Party in Rivers State, Leader Sampson has advised politicians to refrain from using inciting comments and abusive words capable of heating up the polity.
Sampson who gave the advice during a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt, reminded politicians that winning an election was not do or die affair and stressed the need for peaceful elections.
He explained that the way and manner the various candidates conduct themselves largely determine how their followers carry on and therefore urged politicians going into the ballot to create an atmosphere of peace at all times.
“To all the politicians we need a peaceful atmosphere to contest so we should not heat up the system in order not to generate violence.
“If we as politicians, heat up the system by making inciting comments our supporters will follow and before you know it there will be violence,” the governorship candidate said.
Sampson however, appealed to security agencies to be professional and not partisan during the general elections next month and subsequent ones, even as he commended the police and other agencies for maintaining peace enjoyed through the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
“Like the peace we experienced during the yuletide I pray that it continues. I also want to say that the security agencies should not be bias in the 2019 elections.
“They should do their job professionally so that we can have a peaceful election. But where the security agencies will partner with the government of the day at the federal level to rig elections then the issue of insecurity will come up because the politicians and their supporters will react”.

Dennis Naku