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The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has charged presidential candidates and their political parties to focus on issues and stop verbal and physical attacks of opponents in the 2023 general elections season.
The National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, Afenifere in a statement on Sunday, said this .
Ajayi said that political parties and their candidates should focus on issues regarding how they would tackle the myriad of challenges that the country is facing rather than coming up with utterances and actions that border on “de-marketing of opponents and possibly causing bodily harms on other people.
The organisation noted that politicians are, of late, hurling serious verbal attacks against one another while physical attacks have also been reported in a few places, which has even led to the loss of lives in some instances.
Afenifere maintained that politicians ought to have matured beyond the seeming villainy they currently display, stressing that the verbal attacks emanating from some candidates and their spokespersons are encouraging their unscrupulous supporters to violently attack opponents in a manner that could result in bloodshed.
The socio-political organisation recalled that Mr Festus Keyamo, SAN, last week came up with various allegations against the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and in the same vein, the spokesman of PDP, Honourable Debo Ologunagba, accused the presidential candidate of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of directing “his party members to unleash violence on Nigerians”.
According to Afenifere, Ologunagba alleged that Tinubu gave the directive at a closed-door event in London that inadvertently leaked to the public.
Afenifere stated, “Earlier last week, a man suspected to be one of the supporters of the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, was allegedly tortured by some unknown men at Oraifite in the Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State.
“A video clip that has been circulating on social media shows the leader of the unknown gunmen threatening that anyone caught wearing or putting on any campaign material of politicians would be severely dealt with.
“On Friday, January 20, 2023, three persons were reportedly injured, following double explosions that rocked a rally by the APC, at the Rumu-Woji Play Ground, also known as Ojukwu Field in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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