“I believe that the people have the right of picking their leaders, and no leader should force himself on the people.” Comrade Mike Osajiele

Comrade Mike certainly has some questions to ask: “if one of my supporters had more than one ballot papers why would he put it in his pocket instead of the ballot box?” “Why wasn’t he taken aside and searched to confirm he was with more than one ballot papers?”

Mike claims it was a masterminded plan B by his opponent(s) to disrupt the election because “they were tensed up and scared about the results.” Mike urges all to come together and stop victimisation, “this is an oppression and we shouldn’t let it stand… we should come together and put our president by ourselves and not let people force candidate on us based on tribalism and other sentiments.”

He shares more by revealing that the people sharing the ballot papers that day were mostly Isoko people, “… and if they gave more than one ballot papers that day would they have done it for someone who is not an indigene or would they have done it for their son?” He went further to buttress that on that day, on the election ground, voters were being asked who they wanted to vote for, if the answer was Zino, “the voters were given more than one ballot papers.” And he asserts that “if there should be a re-run those persons should be changed.”

Mike appeals to our conscience as students that “pikin wey dem dey beat wey dem no hold am make e no cry… I’m being victimized and oppressed, and I’m crying.”

He debunks the rumour that has been circulating that Mike wanted to rig the election, “I never did and never will because I believe that the people have the right of picking their leaders, and no leader should force himself on the people.”

Mike encourages his supporters not to be discouraged, and pleads with them not to lose faith in him.