Ahead of the March 18 gubernatorial election, a human rights
activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has said God forbid that President-elect
Bola Tinubu, who he described as ‘INEC-select’, is sworn in as President of
Nigeria.
Farotimi said this while calling on Lagosians not to abandon
the electoral process by not going out to cast their votes for their preferred
candidates on March 18, 2023, governorship and State Houses of assembly
elections.
He spoke on Wednesday when he appeared on Arise Television’s
News programme.
The lawyer alleged that criminal gangs had been legalised in
Lagos, fearing the unthinkable would happen if Tinubu is installed as president
in Abuja with Lagos already in his pocket.
”Freedom is a choice; Freedom is completely a choice. It is
up to the individual to decide whether they want to live or whether they want
to exist. I would rather die standing up for what I believe to be the truth
than live to a ripe old age devoid of the capacity to speak the truth,” he
said.
Farotimi added: “Now, having spoken the truth, it must go
beyond that. What is the effect of abandoning the electoral process this
Saturday? I must speak directly to the camera and tell you all you would be
doing is validating your own enslavement so that, at the end of the day, the entire
purpose of them going around to burn market, the entire purpose of them
bringing this ethnic hatred; the entire purpose of them attacking you and using
threat is to keep you away from exercising from the poll they had once told you
was useless; because you have now discovered your vote is not useless, they are
afraid if you come out to exercise your franchise, their feeding trough (their
pot of soup), they are going to break it.
”But without breaking that pot of soup, how do you free
yourself? God forbid that the ”INEC’s select president” is sworn in. But
imagine that that man is ensconced in Abuja and Lagos is still in their pocket;
imagine what will happen to us with criminal gangs already legalised in Lagos
State; we might as well give up and know that all of us will go and join
mushroom ”pikins” (urchins) in his motor park because that is the reality; that
is the alternative to you to sit. I am not even saying vote for any particular
candidate, but you need to get up, get out of your homes and understand what is
at stake – it is your very freedom. So go and vote.”
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This faro- timid should be arrested. Under which authority is he speaking?. Thank God wether he like it or not tinubu is his president
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