Thursday, June 26, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact
Newsroom Nigeria
  • Home
  • News
    • Across the Nation
    • Crime Watch
    • Metro
    • Political Arena
  • Politics
  • Opinions
  • Crime and Court
    • Judiciary
  • Business
    • Banking
    • Business and Economy
    • Business Life
No Result
View All Result
Newsroom Nigeria
Home Politics

DON’T DIVIDE NIGERIA OVER 2023: OLAWEPO-HASHIM COUNSELS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

The supporters of the candidates, he added, are also driving  their campaigns and marketing of their candidates via intimidation, threat, disinformation and blackmail, without any word of caution from their principals. 

Newsroom Nigeria by Newsroom Nigeria
August 28, 2022
in Politics
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

By Iyanu Oluwajomiloju

A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC and former  Presidential  Candidate has warned political gladiators, especially the presidential candidates of the various political parties against further widening the existing gulf and divisions in the country in their race and ambition for 2023.

Related posts

IGNORE ARMCHAIR CRITICS; YOUR RESULTS WILL SPEAK FOR YOU, PRESIDENT TINUBU TELLS GOVERNORS

May 2, 2025

Former Lagos PDP Guber Candidate, Jandor Pledges Support for TPI, Hails Tinubu, Ganduje

April 27, 2025

In a release from his media office in Abuja on Sunday Olawepo-Hashim explained that in the quest for power by the candidates,  rather than addressing  issues that are germaine to our nationhood, the actors have been inflaming the passion of tribal and religious anger among the people.

The supporters of the candidates, he added, are also driving  their campaigns and marketing of their candidates via intimidation, threat, disinformation and blackmail, without any word of caution from their principals.

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Trust in the  2019 General  election recalled that “even before independence, Nigeria had a rich history of politics and political campaigns, which gave the electorates big opportunity to interrogate the candidates and party programmes before making informed choices and decisions.

“Campaigns were built around issues which had been properly elucidated in the party’s manifestoes.

“Parties were also held accountable for their programmes and the candidates toed  the line of the parties in their conducts and utterances.”

According to him, “in the first Republic, the four dominant parties: the AG, the NPC, the NCNC and NEPU were distinct and original in form and deeds before the electorates.

“Ditto in the second Republic when we had the NPN, the UPN, the NPP, GNPP, PRP and the NAP which were known by their programmes and issues raised in their campaigns.”

He lamented that “what is however at play presently is sadly at variance with the good old days. While the country is presently held down by the demons of insecurity, energy/power, education and unemployment crisis, the parties and the political actors are dancing around these critical issues.”

He also maintained that “sadly  the North is currently being divided between Christians and  Muslims and not- Muslim -enough, while the South is been ripped apart by propaganda that pitch Christians of  the South West against their Muslim siblings;  on the one hand, Yorubas against the Ibos on the other hand as well as the old against the young.”

The parties he said, have lost their voices and supremacy to the rampaging candidates and their army of supporters.

“The point is that there is danger ahead if this monster is not tamed. Our democracy faces the danger of been trapped by a self-inflicted convulsion which may damage the current fragile ethno-religious situation in the country,” he added.

Olawepo-Hashim argued that the “nation cannot afford to crash this democratic process on the altar of narrow self-interest by politicians who are merely on a mission of personal ambition and self-aggrandizement.”

ShareTweetSendShareShare
Previous Post

THREE STATES GET NEW CP IN NEW POLICE POSTING

Next Post

ARMY DISMISSES SOLDIERS FOR KILLING CLERIC, TO BE HANDED TO POLICE FOR PROSECUTION

Related Posts

Politics

IGNORE ARMCHAIR CRITICS; YOUR RESULTS WILL SPEAK FOR YOU, PRESIDENT TINUBU TELLS GOVERNORS

May 2, 2025
POLITICAL ARENA

Former Lagos PDP Guber Candidate, Jandor Pledges Support for TPI, Hails Tinubu, Ganduje

April 27, 2025
POLITICAL ARENA

Yoruba Groups Ask Tinubu, NSA to Avoid Looming Crisis in Niger Delta

April 22, 2025
News

LG Poll: Party Leaders Urge Obasa to Support Son’s Aspiration for Agege Chairmanship

April 22, 2025
Politics

Obasa Calls for Unity as Court Declares Removal Illegal, Unconstitutional

April 16, 2025
Politics

PRESIDENCY DISCLAIMS 2027 CAMPAIGN BILLBOARDS NATIONWIDE

April 13, 2025
Next Post

ARMY DISMISSES SOLDIERS FOR KILLING CLERIC, TO BE HANDED TO POLICE FOR PROSECUTION

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Gbenga-Hashim Meets Governor Muftwang of Plateau State, Condoles with Families of Recent Attack

2 months ago

FORMER DEPUTY GOVERNOR STRUGGLES TO RAISE N50,000 TO FIX CAR

2 years ago

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: ISISD ADVOCATES DIGITAL SKILLS TO EMPOWER WOMEN, GIRLS

2 years ago

RECODING NIGERIA: THE OPTIONS BEFORE PRESIDENT TINUBU

2 years ago

FOLLOW US

POPULAR NEWS

  • TAU Students Win Big   at National Innovation Challenge

    TAU Students Win Big   at National Innovation Challenge

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Troops Foil Deadly Terrorist Attack In Niger State, Lose 17 Soldiers

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ADEBAYO HELD ALOFT THE BANNER OF THE UPN, LED BY OBAFEMI AWOLOWO, TINUBU PENS TRIBUTE TO A TRUE STATESMAN

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • TINUBU SIGNS  FOUR TAX BILLS INTO LAW TO TRANSFORM FISCAL, REVENUE FRAMEWORK

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • INEC Receives Applications To Register Obidients People’s Party (OPP), 109 Other Political Parties Registration

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Newsroom Nigeria

This independent, liberal online news platform aims to inform citizens about important issues. NEWSROOM NIGERIA covers political, business, economic, national, and international news. They are committed to journalism ethics and hold the government accountable.

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact

© 2025 Newsroom Nigeria - Designed by Semasir Connect.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Across the Nation
    • Crime Watch
    • Metro
    • Political Arena
  • Politics
  • Opinions
  • Crime and Court
    • Judiciary
  • Business
    • Banking
    • Business and Economy
    • Business Life

© 2025 Newsroom Nigeria - Designed by Semasir Connect.