2019: Kalu speaks on election violence, politics being do-or-die affair

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Orji Kalu, on Friday assured that the 2019 general election will be violence-free across Nigeria.

The former governor of Abia State stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Umuahia, the Abia capital.

Kalu disclosed that the APC government would stop at nothing to ensure hitch-free election.

He said: “There was no violence in 2015 in spite the general fear and predictions before the polls, so there will be no violence in 2019.

“The elections will be peaceful here in Abia and across the whole Federation.”

“The elections will not be marred by violence. APC-led government will leave no stone unturned to protect the nation democracy.’’

The APC chieftain stressed that the pressure of electioneering usually heats up the polity.

He noted that such heat being experienced should not be mistaken as a sign of imminent violence.

Kalu said, “Even in the U.S., the polity is presently heating up ahead of the midterm elections coming up on Nov. 6.”

Kalu, who is a senatorial aspirant for Abia North, took exception to the recent destruction of billboards and posters belonging to political office seekers in the area.

He blamed the act on desperate politicians and their thugs, saying that people should not make politics a do-or-die affair.

“People should see politics as a game, if you win, you rejoice but if you lose you take it in the spirit of sportsmanship. It should not be a do-or-die affair,’’ he said.