 While as Nigerians I wait to hear who will be declared winners and losers of the governorship and House of Assembly elections, many issues have yet again been thrown up from the exercise, from violence to suppression, to vote buying, to very low turnout by people, to the resolve by some who came out to cast their votes and the postponement of elections at some polling units. Well, we'll continue with our analysis of the exercise even as we give you updates as the process continues to unfold. Well, we're joining us live right now is Mayoko Ilo, a political analyst. Hello, Mayoko, good afternoon. Good to have you. I am Maureen Menong, where my co-host is Justin Acadone. Yeah, thanks for joining us, Mr. Ilo. And also we have our correspondent standing by at Ogung and Cano State who will be giving us live updates from those states. In the course of the program, however, first of all, let me speak with you, Mr. Mayoko Ilo. You used to be a governorship aspirant at some point, but also speaking as a Nigerian from all that you've observed, this election will build up to the election and the exercise have thrown up lots of issues. As I said a while ago, lawlessness, tribalism, violence and fear, especially but not particularly in Lagos. Let's start with the tasks ahead of whoever is sworn in as governor in Lagos, in rivers, in Delta. What are the tasks ahead of them? Towards building and mending fences. Welcome, Mr. Ilo. It's a national question that needs to happen like yesterday. There has been issues of voter suppression, intimidation, voter party violence on large scales, coming from most places in the country. I don't know how materially those things will affect the outcome of the election, but however insignificant it may seem, we want our elections to be peaceful. So from my own corner, I think I will propose a referendum of some sort to actually discuss the issues bordering on election and representation as regards the kind of democracy that we claim to be practicing. Where ever it is we got this from, this is not how they do it. People should be able to freely elect their leaders. People should be able to have some kind of dialogue about what it is that maybe they are afraid of in their neighbors or maybe in the other party. I've seen some posts, I've seen some tweets from supposed leaders of the country. At this point, somebody said, okay, if you vote this party, you have an enemy. I will never greet you again. Some young guys will be telling you I will delete any contact of anybody that is sympathetic or is a category member or is an aspirant on the ballot of this other party. These are not the kind of things we want to be hearing in 2023. Fine, now I have been straight, but I have been afraid rather. But at the end of the day, we are all Nigerians. We are one people. We should not give in to the bad instincts of our nature, bad angels as they will call it. So we should try and be more civil, be more enlightened, be more accommodating of one another. I don't want the kind of problem that happened in Rwanda in the 90s to have any foothold in Nigeria. We should see ourselves as neighbors, as brothers and sisters. And the next president should take on the task. It's not something that should wait for the next four years. Because asking somebody that is benefiting from a bad system to support change may be a bit difficult, but we will appeal to the better angels of our nature so that we will do whatever needs to be done so that there will be change. All right, we'll come back to you.