Olawepo-Hashim Votes In Abuja, Asks Losers To Accept Defeat

Olawepo-Hashim votes in Abuja, asks losers to accept defeat

…congratulate winner

Presidential
candidate of the Peoples Trust(PT) Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim said on
Saturday that candidates at the presidential election should swallow
their anger and accept to congratulate the eventual winner.

Olawepo
Hashim, who  voted in Abuja at 12.30 pm spoke to reporters  shortly
after casting his vote at Unit 012, Lagos Road Junction, 2-1 Kubwa,
Abuja. 

He said that whatever the outcome contestants who lose the polls  should agree to  congratulate the winner.

He also added that the winner should be very responsible and magnanimous in victory.

He
said: “Nigeria needs to move out election siege that it has gotten
itself into which according to him has some implications for the sake of
the economy, peace, unity and stability.

“I want to see some
matured statements from political leaders. The politics of the country
seems seriously broken, we have to pick that together because basically
in this election we are supposed to be a vehicle to improve governance
not to lower the quality of governance. Otherwise it would have lost its
meaning. 

“I think the security people have done their job
professionally. The political leaders should accept the responsibility
of their failures and of their lack of maturity and they are the ones
pitting all these various institutions under pressure who otherwise
would have been professionals. Our soldiers perform very well when they
go peace keeping mission anywhere in the world, but when they come back
it’s different. What we have seen is the desperation of political
leaders, particularly the two major parties, they have almost brought
this country to its knees. From statements we hear to accusations, there
are certain things when you say you lead a country you must not do.

“There
are issues about the general climate of electioneering in the country,
the behaviors of political leaders which have impacted the way the
institutions that are managing the election are operating. And then the
general political environment which I believe would have been better if
we had a cooling off period after the first postponement. 

With
the evidence before your eyes, I believe that for election to have
meaning, it must be a process of peaceful transfer of power, whose
outcome is largely susceptible to the participants, once you don’t have a
great deal of that, there’s a basis to question the legitimacy of such a
process which is not beneficial to peace and stability any country.

“I
assumed that we needed some cooling off period after the first
postponement, the tension was high, there were various issues about
foreign interferences backing one candidate against the other candidate
and other salient issues, like I believe the major parties did a lot of
vote buying in this exercise which were done through state resources but
being that as it may, having said that they were both prepared,
whatever is the outcome of this process, the winner should congratulate
the loser.”

Source:- Thisdaylive