 The impact of bigotry and political manipulations on the Nigerian democratic process. The turn of events following the aftermath of the Nigerian general election is a clear indication that our political leaders are not ready for the change the masses club will fall. The election results have left many Nigerians questioning the integrity of the democratic processes and the readiness of our leaders in bringing about change. Corruption got fatherism, violence, tribal bigotry continuing to plague our political system. The failure to provide a level playing field for all candidates and the deliberate disenfranchisement of certain groups due to tribal bigotry and hate is a step too far. Nigerians are demanding fairness and the opportunity to choose leaders with integrity and dependability. However, the mockiness of corruption and the violence has snatched away this wish, leaving the broken nation and awakening the monster of hate and tribalism that threatens our unity and progress. The rest of the world is watching and our political leaders must realize that the actions have consequences beyond our borders. Nigeria still has a long way to go in achieving free and fair elections. It is time for our leaders to put aside their personal interests and work towards the common good. We must not allow bigotry and political manipulations to overshadow our democratic ideas. The future of Nigerians depend on it. Think about this, hate speech, hate propaganda were identified as the catalyst of the genocide violence in Rwanda in 1994, the xenophobic attacks in South Africa and so on. We as Nigerians should be careful so as not to incite violence nor hit up the polity because it will be terrible to experience another civil war. Let us pause down on these words as we conclude. Conflicts cannot survive without your participation. This is by Dr. Wayne Walter there, an American safe health author, speaker and psychologist. Now, I love when people talk about politics and you would love to mention Godfatherism. In every profession there is a Godfather. If you are a mechanic you are going to be an apprentice at one time. If you are a doctor you are going to be a trainee doctor on that consultant. If you are depending on how it is. So I think politics, the business has gone out. The system of learning from someone else, has it been corrupted? Yes, because it is the people that are corrupted. It is not politicians that are corrupted. In a place where, if you study elections across Nigeria, there are villages where they will say, this is the guy we want to be our representative. He is the guy that is going to get us to the next. If you like to let me run on that party, XYL, they will guard their votes. They will escort those votes to the coalition unit and they will ensure that those votes are delivered. As long as we continue to mortgage our responsibilities in the democratic process, our democratic process will remain the same. It is not a situation of politicians. It is a situation of we the people not caring. Let's be honest, no offence to the media because I am on TV right now. But let's be honest, Kunle right now is getting a bid on advocates for free, can pose here and chill. At the moment I say I am running for president, plus TV will charge me, no offence. Plus TV will charge me five million for sitting down here. And it goes down to everything. It goes down to everything else. And you know, even from your friends that are running for office, the moment I declared I was running for office, my friends stopped paying for lunch, stopped paying for anything. I paid for everything else. Let me tell you how bad it is, when my posters came out, my landlord increased my rent. Are you serious? Yes, I have money to travel with. Wow. You have that kind of money? You were telling me. He was using rentations. Who is guilty really? If people say it is for the shards, it is not for the shards that are guilty. But I would have thought that I am going to go from the angle of the structure. You know, coming from the time of Basantro and Ainec and how they were able to carry out a good and fair election to a large extent that there was an animosity and everybody was able to trust the system. Because with this election, I am going to say I am more of a bystander. But I was not an active participant. And to see the raw emotion and the pain that people felt when they felt that my candidate did not win. And I asked myself, your candidate did not win. But because you do not trust the system, you cannot say, oh, we lost. Let us take it in good faith and step back. I just want to interject. The worst election in Nigerian history is 2007. 2007? Oh, okay. The one that votes here, we are drawing to power. I was hoping that we will continue to grow in the process. And we are going to continue to get better. But looking at this last election, I think we just went like one million years back. There was so much confusion, so much bias. It was all of us who were talking about the boxes. In some neighborhoods and some communities, they actually had stakes and stands to protect their votes. They are going to shoot me for saying this. Are they supposed to have stakes and stands to protect their votes? They are going to shoot me for saying this. But I'm going to tell you the truth about someone who has more in total been part of the electoral process preceding 2015. This election is Nigeria's safest election. What happened in this election is that you now have social media which can expand what happened. So today, 2007, INEC does not have the result for 2007. And you can check this out. And I know what I'm telling you. This is the best time. For a president to enter and say the election that brought me was wala. I know that when Nigerians should understand what happened. So quickly take your mind to 2019. I'll try to edit what I'm saying because I'm on TV. A woman was born in a house in Lokoda. A resident electoral commissioner and his family were born in their house in Kano. That did not happen this time. So what are you talking about? As much as we don't want to have these issues. I'm not saying that someone was in jail. I'm saying the volume of value of thousands. I'll give you an example. As much as they were shouting, Lagos has more than 11,000 polyunits. The discrepancies with Lagos polyunits were only 359. I cannot even mention the places I saw. It's 359. It's 359. The issues with polyunits in Lagos. 11,000. Everything else went peacefully. That's the safest election Lagos has ever had in Lagos history. No offence. This does not make the election full proof and beautiful market. I am saying in comparison. Yes, it doesn't exonerate them. But in comparison to what we've done. You think that we are gradually getting to that safe. We are growing. We are having less violence on the wider scale. Yes, and I think it's even good we have social media now. Social media is revealing what the monsters we truly are. Because if you go back. We case the election in 2019. It was a slaughterhouse in Rivers. People had called for killing each other. That's the reality of our politics. Now, if people got flogged. Not good. Not good. Not good. Not good. I don't agree to it. But like I said. When we are making these comparisons. We must be conversant of the data procedure. The scale of it so that we don't. You are saying that we are leaving from worse to bad. I thought we are going back. We are going back. That's what he is trying to say. We are going back. We are going back. We are going back. We are going back. We are going back. We will go back. Let's go back. Let's go back. Let's go back. Let's go back. Let me add this last line. If a country that has claimed 300 years of democracy. You can still have somebody breaking into the capital house. And pulling on the speakers table. I think we are doing fine. The end always seems to come too soon on the advocate. However, the advocacy continues on our social media platforms. On Facebook, plus TV Africa. Hashtag the advocate NG. Or on Twitter and Instagram. At plus TV Africa. Hashtag the advocate NG. To catch up with previous broadcasts. Go to theplustvafrica.com. The support slash the advocate NG. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus TV Africa. Till next week. Same time on the station. Let's keep advocating for a better society. Goodbye everyone. Bye.