Ahead of the September 28th date for the flag-off 2023 political campaigns, a leading pro-democracy group, Kwara must change, has challenged political parties in Nigeria to base their campaigns on truth and genuine issues.
The group said the periods of political campaigns should be a window for competition for quality ideas that could intellectually empower the people and build their capacity to be active and responsible citizens.
The group also said that political campaigns should no longer be about antagonism, but about competition of quality ideas.
Kwara Must Change, in a statement by its convener, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, stated that the era of turning campaigns into battle and pitching one group against the other on the basis of tribe, region or religion should be over.
According to Hamzat, “deliberate falsehood, outright misrepresentation and unpatriotic demarketing of the country under the guise of campaign is no longer tolerable” adding that all candidates seeking to…
