In what has been hailed as a landmark initiative ahead of next month’s presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari – the two biggest combatants in the 2015 presidential election – embraced each other on Wednesday at an election sensitisation workshop on non-violence before signing a peace accord.
Both men, as well as other presidential candidates, promised, among other things, to take “proactive measures to prevent electoral violence before, during and after the elections” and “run issue-based campaigns at national, state and local government levels”. It is unclear yet if this is yet another tokenism, seeing how the spokesmen of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) previously admonished each other to stick with the issues in their campaigns.
If that happens, these are five of the most pungent campaign-ground missiles we expect not to hear again.
PDP IS COMPLETELY BURNT
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Fiery-talking governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola, played host to the APC campaign delegation on Wednesday, just hours after the signing of the peace accord and his opening utterances were far from peaceful.
“PDP ti jona o; PDP ti jona patapata,” Aregbesola blurted in Yoruba, meaning “PDP is burnt; PDP has burnt completely.” As though the law of Karma was at work, Aregbesola, initially, mistakenly substituted PDP with APC. So he actually started by saying “APC is burnt!” That’s what happens with evil thoughts; everyone – including the protagonist and the supposed victim – is consumed.
What and whose interest would a burnt PDP serve, anyway? We don’t want any party to burn – not APC, not PDP!
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BAD LUCK ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
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So funny!!!