Arise News anchor, Rufai Oseni, has condemned the repeated attacks on members of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, and accused the government of winning elections through rigging and disruption.
Rufai spoke on Friday during Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’, while reacting to the disruption of the NDC town hall meeting in Lagos, where thugs invaded the venue with cutlasses, sticks and stones and forced participants to run for safety.
According to him, the attacks on the party have become far too frequent and Nigerians must begin to ask why they are happening.
“The attacks on the NDC have become far too frequent. The real question is: why are these attacks happening?” Oseni said.
He said democracy cannot be built on violence, and it will never work.
“They should remember that democracy cannot be built on violence, it will never work,” he said.
Rufai said he does not support the idea of “rig and die,” but the deeper question Nigerians should ask is why elections are being rigged in the first place.
“I do not support ‘rig and die,’ but the deeper question is why they are rigging in the first place,” he said.
He said nothing will be done about the Lagos attack because that is how the government wins elections.
He added that when rigging and disruption fail, the government simply turns to the judiciary to get what it wants.
Rufai’s comments came hours after thugs disrupted the NDC town hall meeting in Lagos, where the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, and the governorship candidate in Lagos, Funso Doherty, were in attendance.