As Nigerians go to the polls tomorrow to elect state governors, Houses of Assembly members and Area Council members in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) elections, it is pertinent to call on all actors in the process to abide by democratic tenets.
This call becomes even more urgent if the nation must avert the kind of violence that visited the Presidential and National Assembly elections. At that time it was reported that some politically incorrect characters took pleasure in killing and maiming workers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security operatives and youth corps members deployed to make the conduct of the elections hitch-free.
It is our opinion that they must desist from such unwholesome, even criminal behaviour, because democratic elections in the 21st century are certainly not armed contests. Violence of any kind goes against the grind, and perpetrators of such violence and their sponsors have to be caught and removed from society in a…
