 And we're back with the breakfast in Plasti via Africa. It's time for us to go through a second conversation. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday expressed concern over the spate of violence at the ongoing electioneering campaign. The commission said it would summon leaders of political parties participating in the 2023 general elections over the threat of violence that has happened. Now, INEC chairman, Momoti Yokobu, raised concern at the training of master trainers on technologies for the 2023 general elections in Abuja. This came shortly after the People's Democratic Party PDP campaign was attacked by suspected thugs in Kaduna state. Describing the development as worrisome, Yokobu cautioned parties and their supporters to focus on issue and stairway of attacks on each other. The Vowland Act, when not only valuation of the electoral acts of 2022, but also it negates the voluntary commitment by political parties and candidates to the letter and a spate of peace accord. This is the thoughts of the chairman. He also acknowledged reports of clashes among parties and their supporters in some states of the country during the ongoing electioneering campaign, which he described as worrisome. So too is the reports denial of access to public facilities for parties and candidates in some states of the federation. He also said that there's need to caution parties and their supporters to focus on issues like it was rightly mentioned and to the away from attack on each other. These are not only the valuation of the electoral act of 2022, but also it negates the commitment by political parties and candidates to the letter and spirit of peace accord, which was signed about three weeks ago under the auspices of the National Peace Committee. We have Ambrose Iqbouke, who joins the conversation as a public affairs analyst. Ambrose, it's good to have you join us this morning. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, Piz. Why do we still have this kind of politicking or campaigning that's characterized by violence and contrary to the electoral act, even when you have these political leaders signing a peace accord? Well, first of all, Nigeria has had a very you know, satisfactory when it comes to election area. After the independence in 1916, the major political crisis that happened, happened in 1964. In the action group election with the Western House of Parliament, the Tresola-Kitola-Nahorowas group, and that led to what we call the oppression led here, which was a precursor to January 15, 1966 school, because it was that election, Western Regional Election of 1964 that's cascaded into the violence that engulfed the Western region, that led to the declaration of emergency there, and that made the military boys strong to say that the politicians cannot take care of the country. So, you know, we cannot allow those kind of mistakes to continue. 1979, so you don't face your violence. Where, you know, electoral policies where voting votes were snatched, all kinds of insults held at each other, people lost their lives. In fact, it was so infamous that we could not determine what was to turn, and they were to go to the courts. You know, it was always messy. And then when we came, the only election we saw at rest fight was in 1993, June 12th election, that seemed to have where the Professor Humphrey was who, the chairman then of the electoral body, brought the option A4, and it worked wonderfully at that time. And we didn't have round call. The election results are displayed, almost, and then it was completed by the ADB regime. Now, then we resumed democracy in 1999, who had got to the body for the military to go. So, election was just done, conducted, and then, but the first test of our election was in 2003, in this situation. There were lots of foulness. In fact, a state fair was created to the former head of state, chief publicist for Bass Angels, that the election was very due to a bad effect, but the election was war. So that kind of mindset would have been militarized, where our psyche was that of winner takes his all, whether there's no benevolence of the winner and there was no, you know, sportsman spirit of the loser. That is the mindset we come to politics in. We come to politics, of course, every politician comes to win it, but not win it at all costs. That is what the Nigerian politician, Nitec, is made of. But we saw that change in the year 2016. For the first time in a long while, we saw an incubate president who made the famous statement that his ambition as a politician is not what the blood of any Nigerian. And that was Dr. Goodlock and Bella Jonathan. For Dr. Goodlock asked some of his in the philosophy that is what a lecture is supposed to say. Ibokke, we apologize for that, but if you're there and you can hear me, I mean, the politicians, some studies have said some reports, you know, think tanks have come up with the analysis that if you look at all of this, the accusing finger always points back at the politician. And you rightly talked about some of the rhetoric of politicians in times past, like they do or die a fair, famous statement by a former president of the country. Recently, there was a piece of court signed by the 18 political parties contesting the presidential election in 2023. This was done at the International Conference Center in Abuja, midway by the National Peace Committee. But with the signing of this electoral, this peace pact, or this peace accord, we're still seeing here reports like the INH chairman said of violence amongst the political parties and their supporters. Most recently in Cardinal State, where some PDP supporters were attacked. Why do we still have the politicians signing a peace pact and peace accord yet will continue to have violent situations in our polity? Mr. Ibokke, do we still have you? Yeah, we do have me. You know, what we do have is political actors are still in the political scene. So there's still this election. Remember that there was a moment where in one of the elections, I think in 2017 or 2011, they made an intimate statement about the bubble to be sucked in blood. You remember that statement? Yeah, but Mr. Ibokke, the reason I'm asking is they signed the peace accord just last month, late last, it's not even up to one month. They signed the peace accord. So what's going on? Well, what's going on is that we need to, we need to, maybe we need to bring back the matter to talk to them. And how, as a sitting and incumbent president, he gave up, you know, he didn't contest the result of the election. He called Irina to congratulate him. Maybe he should come and put all these frontline political actors on how to go about this thing. And then the supporters, are the most dangerous set of people. The political actors themselves are very, very convivial with each other. They are fresh, actually. They're rich together. They're dying together. But it's the politicians that are actually, it's the political associates are followers that are always a dagger drawn. So for example, we saw the digital accident of Kebaba Balatimubu and Alaja Chukwabubaka meeting at the airport and chatting and that is how they are. All of them are friends. They are only enemies. So this is the common man that passed down life. That my support, my personal desire and your understanding. So the political actors, the candidates should start talking to them to their followers. But this is not a true or dire thing. Your followers are supposed to monitor their election. Martian asked the point of the strength of your candidates to ensure that they sell their candidates to Nigeria. I'm not this violent. We saw the, okay, we saw the violent in different forms. There is the administrative violence. Where you deny access, we have the solidarity of your opponents to publish user agilities. And this gives the candidates of other political parties are also citizens. For indigenous of the state, I am denying that. Why should you do that? We have reports from Lagos that last one is denying other political parties from advertising on outlaws of debauches. And that's as you concretize, because I always drive through Lagos. You had me through any opposition debauches. I was there with a phone, a phone conversation that looked over some two months ago, that, that solidified that. And it's because the government has denied it. But again, we are not saying this. So it is that all that comes from political violence. All right, Ambrose Igboke, we have to go now. And that's because we're really out of time, but we appreciate you and your thoughts this morning on the show. Thank you for having me. Well, we have been speaking with Ambrose Igboke. Here is Public Affairs Analyst, who joins us right here in Lagos via a phone conversation. That's the size of it. We will return tomorrow, hopefully. And it would be great, great lineup for us. 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