Ahead of the 2023 general election, Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has beseeched Nigerians to vote for candidates in the 2023 polls based on their track records, and not out of anger.
Fashola who spoke on Tuesday in Lagos at the sixth edition of the annual BRF GABFEST with the theme, ‘What Am I Voting For?’ said that emotions should not be the primary driver for making choices of quality leaders who will address the teething challenges of the country.
He tasked Nigerians as ‘political employers’ to organise public debates, town hall meetings and conferences to assess candidates’ manifestos and what their political parties profess.
“I urge you to vote by holding debates and town halls where you put questions to the candidates to test their abilities,” the Minister said.
“I urge you to vote by looking at what the candidates have done before, this is like asking for the referees during an interview or talking to a previous employer. This is how to recruit an employee. Not by anger.”
Though the former Lagos governor states that two ways to assess a candidate is “to look at what their manifestos present and what their political parties profess” and to “attend rallies they organize”, he noted that public debates and town hall meetings remain the best way to know a credible candidate.
“Debates and town hall meetings provide perhaps the best way to put their feet to fire and we as political employers of these public servants can organise these debates and town halls along our economic and social groupings,” said Fashola.
On the importance of the debates and town hall meetings, he added, “After all they are the ones looking for our votes and we are the ones who seek to employ them.
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