Chairman of a socio-cultural group, Otunba Sola Olatunji has warned Nigerian electorate to be wary of politicians who always deceived them to secure votes even as the race to the 2023 elections get hotter by the day.
The Ikale Heritage Development Association, IHDA, boss insists that only people who are deeply connected to the grassroots and familiar with the socio-economic problems bedeviling the communities and nation at large should be dreaming of contesting for elections.
“The era of securing electoral positions with sweet words has gone,” Olatunji said. “The electorate must have been fed up with politicians who curry their votes and disappear into the thin air after victory. They hardly visit their constituencies again, let alone pick phone calls or respond to messages on account of ‘I’m too busy’.
“Sorry, anyone with such attitude has no business in any public office. Not in 2023. Enough is enough. We have been scammed in the past but now wiser. It’s better for such a person to remain in his personal estate or private endeavors in this present dispensation.
“ A situation where you occupy public office and you are too busy to respond to public enquiry through phone calls or SMS or WhatsApp messages is the height of insult to the voters.”
He added that with over 20 years of our democratic experiences at a stretch, our level of political consciousness has improved tremendously.
“Electorate are now more informed about their rights and the responsibility of their representatives. The days of representatives by proxy or vote buying may have gone with history in our political evolution as technology has, in no small way, become a social engineering tools in our march towards a better nation. Everything is now in the open.”
