“Did you win the people’s confidence or their fear and intimidation?” – Rufai Oseni poses questions to elected politicians (Video)

"Did you win the people's confidence or their fear and intimidation?" – Rufai Oseni poses questions to elected politicians (Video)

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Popular TV host, Rufai Oseni has posed some thought-provoking questions to the newly-elected politicians who have clinched various positions in the 2023 elections.

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The broadcaster, who’s known for his fiery method of presenting, posed questions to some politicians who had carried out various electoral malpractices and intimidation to secure their current positions. Rufai asked to know if these various politicians had won the confidence and approval of the governed, or whether what they had succeeded in attaining is the fear, intimidation and the disgust of the people that they seek to rule. He urged them to check their conscience as the past would always appear before their eyes on their last days on earth, and whether or not they’d be proud of what they had done would depend on their present actions. Watch him speak below:

“If you do well, you won’t have to use fear and intimidation to force anyone to support you” – Simi writes to politicians

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Famous musician and songwriter, Simi has spoken out on the use of intimidation and coercion by some politicians to make people support them.

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In a post on her Twitter page, the singer said that leaders seeking reelection wouldn’t need to resort to certain brutish ways to gain support if they had done what the people wanted. According to her, if they had been doing well and had been loved by the people, fear and intimidation as tools for reelection wouldn’t be in their inventory to gain votes. In her words: “If you do well and people love you, you won’t have to use fear and intimidation to force anyone to support you. Isn’t this common sense?”