Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, sparked widespread outrage just lately after issuing a stern warning that anybody caught manipulating the 2027 elections can be killed.
Speaking at a political occasion in his constituency, Omo-Agege warned that anybody who tried to rig or manipulate votes within the upcoming polls would face extreme penalties.
“It’s rig and die,” he reportedly mentioned.
Addressing supporters and social gathering trustworthy in Delta Central, Omo-Agege declared that the period of political actors subverting the favored mandate was over.
Omo-Agege, who’s in search of election to the Delta Central senatorial seat below the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), emphasised that voters have been ready to defend their votes at polling models nationwide.
“I want to make the news again. Anybody who rigs the election on that day, we will kill him! If you don’t value your life, come and rig the election. They’re rigging your future. They’re rigging the future of your children. We’re waiting for them. Let them try it. It is rig-and- die. We’re going to give them aura for aura. There’s no court this time. We’re going to fight,” he was quoted as saying.
Omo-Agege declared his intention to contest for the Delta Central senatorial seat within the 2027 elections in May. He resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a letter dated May and addressed to the chairman of the social gathering’s Orogun Ward 2 in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.
Omo-Agege’s remark was not solely unlucky however unguarded and completely condemnable. He ought to know that it’s inappropriate for a person of his calibre to advocate for jungle justice. As a lawyer and a former lawmaker, he ought to know that one of the best ways to deal with anyone arrested for against the law, is to be handed over to the police for prosecution.
The police ought to invite him for questioning, and if attainable, to write down an enterprise that he is not going to encourage the killing of anybody through the 2027 basic election.
