By Oyibo Salihu
Lokoja
Ohinoyi of Ebira land, Dr Ado Ibrahim, has charged candidates of political parties in Kogi state that are vying for governorship position to shun campaign of calumny, use of inflammatory statements that were capable of hampering the absolute peace being enjoyed in the state.
The monarch also enjoined politicians to delve into issues that would motivate the electorate to come out en masse to cast their votes on Election Day.
Ibrahim, who gave the charge when he received the candidate of Progressive People Alliance (PPA) for the November 21 governorship election, Mr Enesi Emmanuel Ozigi, who paid him a visit in his palace as part of the party’s campaign flag off in Okene, said the use of vulgar statement during electioneering campaign can only jeopardise the existing peace and tranquillity being enjoyed by the people of the state.
While appealing to politicians from central senatorial district and the state at large, the monarch maintained that the essence of democracy was to usher in dividend of democracy, saying that without appreciable peace and unity the electorate can never enjoy the aims and objectives of democracy.
He advised: “I am appealing to politicians in my domain and even across the state o play politics of unity, politics of progress and togetherness for the sake of Kogi state and the country at large.
“I am also using this opportunity to caution the PPA members and its teeming supporters to go about their campaigning in a peaceful manner devoid of rancour and skirmishes.”
Earlier, the standard flag bearer of PPA, Enesi Ozigi, said he was in the palace to seek a royal blessing that would propelled him to actualise the power rotation of the people of central senatorial district.
Ozigi assured that if given the mandate to serve, he would make sure that all the development potentials abound in the state through collaboration with the federal government would galvanise the potentials for the benefit of the state.
He added that “we are going to prioritise our interventions so that within four years we will be able to touch all sectors of the state.”
