Vote Peacefully, PCRC Urges Electorate
Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Meiran Division, Agbado / Oke-Odo LCDA, Lagos State held a sensitisation March aimed at creating awareness on the dangers of electoral violence in the country.
The rally, which took PCRC members to every nook and cranny of Meiran, Agbado / Oke – Odo LCDA, commenced and terminated at the Meiran Police division.
Speaking during the occasion, chairman PCRC, Meiran division, Prince Adebisi Osideinde called on the electorate to participate fully and peacefully in the March 28 and April 11 general elections, to ensure they get the leadership they desired.
Osidehinde said, the campaign with the theme: “Security Awareness for Peaceful Elections was aimed at urging Nigerians to eschew ethnicity, tribalism and nepotism in the choice of who governs them, calling on the electorate and politicians to draw inspirations from the national anthem of the country, to arise and serve diligently and faithfully.
“This election is for and by Nigerian people and it must be free, fair and held in such a way that it will deepen the nation’s democracy such that at the end of the electoral process, Nigeria must be the winner. We call on Agbado / Oke – Odo LCDA residents to eschew every form of violence”, he said, adding:
“the prevalent do-or die attitude is unnecessary, unhelpful and unhealthy for our system of democracy. We must all say:
“no” to violence before, during and after the elections”.