The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC) has
called on Nigerians to ensure that the country remains indivisible, peaceful
and united after the May 29 handover ceremony.
Executive Director of WARDC, Dr Abiola Akinyode-Afolabi said at the
weekend during a “Community Response and Post 2015 Election” workshop held at
Women Development Center in Agege, Lagos, that though the 2015 elections were
adjudged as peaceful, free and credible by local and international observers,
there were still some states that are violence prone.
According to her, Rivers and Ekiti states are flash states where
post elections violence have been recorded, even as Lagos is on the edge, weeks
after the elections have been won and lost at presidential, governorship and
house of assembly levels.
In his submission, Barrister Jiti Ogunye, Guest Speaker at the
workshop, identified religion and ethnicity as the major contributory factors
to politically motivated violence in the country.
His words: Politicians in Nigeria, knowing how sensitive religion
and ethnicity are capitalizing on these to attract blog votes during elections.
He called on Nigerians to shun gang-up mentality, religious
bigots, ethnicity, hate campaigns, and doomsday prophets, who make false
prophecies, using the name of God.
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