According to Sheriff Folarin, a Nigerian professor of political science at Texas State University in the United States, public restrooms are cleaner and safer than the average politician’s mouth.
He said this while pointing out that from 1979 to 2019, crooked politicians have lied and made empty promises during every election campaign in the nation.
Sheriff explained this in a speech he gave at the inaugural Peter Obi International Symposium/Lecture Series, titled “The Challenge Of Creative Leadership In An Era Of Scarcity: Nigeria And The Critical Times Ahead.”
Under the auspices of the Nigerians Arise for Peter Obi organisation, a support group for Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi organised the series.
Sheriff lamented the level of election manipulation that has grown to be common in Nigerian elections in a copy of the lecture that was given on Friday, August 19, 2022.
Sheriff, a political science professor at Covenant University, remarked, “Political campaigns all these past years (1979, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) have been underlined by lies. Pure lies and sugar coated promises.
“Public latrines are cleaner and safer than the mouth of an average Nigerian politician. The lies are even less told these days because campaign or not, some privileged politicians in some political parties are going to be declared winners.
“Rigging machines are put in place to deliver undeserved ballots, so much that the candidates with merits end up shortchanged and lose out in the game of thrones. The financial stakes are too high.”
“The rate at which the youth and adults, ethnicities and regions, Christians, Muslims and African Traditional Religion worshippers are speaking in one voice, it will be impossible to silence or rig the elections next year.
