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Former national chairman of the defunct Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) and now member, National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sam Nkire, has advised political parties to de-emphasise huge political rallies due to insecurity in the country.
The APC chieftain said political parties, especially the APC must consider increased use of other campaign tools such as town-criers, door-to-door messaging, electronic, print and social media, while de-emphasizing huge gathering of people in these days of insurgent activities and bombings.
Chief Nkire further advised the public, especially those who do not have much role to play in the rallies to stay at home and watch the television, adding, “a dead man can no longer live to witness the promises of better Nigeria being made by the presidential candidates such as Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, PeterObi or Rabiu Kwankwaso.”
The APC leader said he had been a presidential campaign council member of three presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo (2003), Umar Yar’Adua (2007) and Muhammadu Buhari (2015) and the level of insecurity of those days and years was nothing to compare to the present insurgency, carnage, arson and destruction.
He added that there were already ominous signs of increased insecurity at campaign rallies with recent reports of attacks on some presidential campaign rallies but added that those incidents were not enough to stop political rallies totally.
Chief Nkire said he was not in support of those calling for postponement or making insinuations for postponement of the general election due to insecurity, saying “the election must hold in order to defeat the insurgency, as not holding the election will mean a defeat for Nigeria and our military.”
