by Francis Adewumi
” _It is time to tell the people how you intend to tackle the problem of multiple taxation choking the masses, death and stagnating businesses, your plans for the education sector, welfare of the people and the state’s economy”_
Hon. Opeyemi David Falegan, the Accord Party candidate in the Ekiti governorship election slated for June 20, has expressed worry over what he described as a “campaign of bitterness and mudslinging.”
Hon Falegan made the remark in a statement issued recently and made available to reporters on Wednesday.
He advised other political parties and their candidates to base their campaigns on issues and eschew politics of bitterness and campaigns of calumny.
He said that campaigns should be a period for candidates to market their programmes and convince the electorate to vote for them on the strength of their manifestos.
According to him, campaigns should be issue-based, with candidates talking about their plans for the security of lives and property and how they intend to stop kidnappings and killings that have become commonplace in country at large.
“Political campaigns should not be to malign or engage in character assassinations or unnecessary altercations with political opponents, but time to showcase our plans for the people.
“It is time to tell the people how you intend to tackle the problem of multiple taxation choking the masses, death and stagnating businesses, your plans for the education sector, welfare of the people and the state’s economy.
“These are the issues that ought to dominate our discourse and not name-calling.
“I am worried by the uncouth language that some persons usually use on other candidates during electioneering, he said.
The Accord Party Governorship Candidate said there was no need for all should resist and condemn anybody to “take others to the cleaners in the name of politics”.