2019: Don’t be swayed by fake promises, group tells Nigerian electorate

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AHEAD of 2019 general elections, a group, Advance Progressive Forum (APF), on Tuesday called on Nigerian electorate to be watchful as they prepare to cast their votes for their preferred candidates in the year’s presidential poll and not be deceived by promises from candidates of the various political parties.

Chairman of APF, Otunba Joseph Onasanya, made the call while speaking with journalists in Lagos, urging the electorate to be sure that whoever they cast their votes for would be somebody who would meet their desire for a better life.

“Many of the party candidates are after their own good and seeking opportunity to exploit the people, but the people have a duty whether to allow themselves to be exploited or they will take advantage of the time to seek to know who will be better for them and give them a better future,” Onasanya said.

According to Onasanya, the 2019 election was going to be a referendum between the rich and the poor, between those who want a change for better life and those who want to stick to the old order that benefits only them, urging the people to know that political promises and intentions by political office seekers were not always the same.

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The chairman of APF, formerly Atiku Progressives Forum, with presence in all the 36 states of the federation and the FCT, said: “Nigerians must learn to look beyond the promises of political office seekers and try to figure out real intentions behind the aspiration if indeed they want change in their condition of living.”

He said the agenda of the APF was to help secure a better life for the people, adding that the group was, therefore, looking out for any of the candidates and political parties that would meet their desire for the people of the country to collaborate with in their interest and the future of a better Nigeria.

He, therefore, urged the electorate to carefully look at the agenda of each of the political parties and match them with the antecedents of their candidates and see which of them meets their desire for a better life, as according to them, promises might not be enough for a voter to make up his or her mind about the appropriateness or otherwise of any particular candidate.