The Politics Of The Gun

The 2027 general elections are still few weeks  away, yet the language of some of the country’s leading politicians already smells of gunpowder. In Edo State, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Jarrett Tenebe, told party supporters in Benin City that anyone who stood in the way of the party’s target of 2.5 million votes for President Bola Tinubu would face “AK-47 fire”. In Delta State, the senatorial candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, warned that whoever rigs the election would be killed, and dared those who did not value their lives to try it. Both are seasoned public men who know the weight of their w...