In the last few days, verbal missiles have been flying across Edo political airwaves.
Personal insults from APC to PDP and from PDP to APC are not what we need.
There is no amount of spinning that will change what surrogates on either side have said.
What should anyone care if someone has a wife, or if someone else does not have children?
Jesus neither had a wife nor children. In all of history, no one has come close to his sacrifice or his work, or his achievements.
We need to stop all this nonsense in Edo State.
Honestly, we do not care.
Here’s a list of the things that concern us, and it is by no means exhaustive:
Our youth need jobs.
Inflation is killing everyone.
Our roads need to be fixed.
Our children need great teachers like we had growing up.
We need security improved.
Our women need Cancer Screening machines in major markets for early detection of Breast cancer.
Our infant mortality and maternal mortality rates need to trend towards zero.
We need Mobile Clinics to travel round Wards across the State to deliver Primary Health Care.
We need our Churches or Mosques to serve as Schools during weekdays to help communities where schools are in bad shape.
We need laptops in the hands of every child in Edo State. If we cannot do that immediately then, let us designate a Church or a Mosque in a Village as a Computer Lab, install Solar panels, and give them 20 laptops. This will in the short term give every child access. In a few short years, our children will be in the forefront of the advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Now that States can generate and distribute Power, how does your candidate plan to give us electricity?
We want candidates and their surrogates to address these issues to earn our votes. Insults on either side smacks of desperation.
The better Angels of our nature must be allowed to prevail.
There’s life after elections.
Let me conclude with a quote from Abraham Lincoln:
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Michael Ovienmhada.
Publisher, Editor-in Chief,
Egogonewshub.com
Honestly, added to the list of our needs should be “good and empathetic leaders” who should be able to look beyond their immediate situation and see what’s happening to the followers. The our party must win irrespective of who is being presented by the party should be stopped and replaced with who is more competent to lead the people. No one can give what they don’t have. The use of thugs for election is rearing its ugly head in Edo State again considering the shooting down of a Police officer recently in Benin City. Parties should present their manifestos to the populace and convince them to vote for them and not to be insulting each other.