2027: Keyamo Faults Opposition Over ‘Rig and Die’ Claim

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development Festus Keyamo has criticised opposition figures for selling the “rig and die” slogan forward of the 2027 common elections, arguing that it’s going to deny them any excuse in the event that they undergo defeat.

In a put up on his X account on Thursday, Keyamo stated these pushing the phrase—first popularised by former Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege—could be pressured to display how many individuals they killed on election day to substantiate claims of rigging.He urged the slogan must be welcomed, noting that after a free and honest contest it will develop into unimaginable for shedding candidates responsible electoral fraud within the standard means.

Keyamo remarked that the variety of folks killed would wish to match the dimensions of alleged rigging for the declare to carry.Omo-Agege launched the slogan on 23 October throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. Contesting the Delta Central Senatorial District seat underneath the Nigeria Democratic Congress, he warned that anybody caught manipulating the 2027 election could be killed and that there could be no resort to the courts.

“Anybody who rigs the election on that day, we will kill him! If you don’t value your life, come and rig the election… It is rig and die,” he stated on the time. Responding to criticism, Omo-Agege’s media aide, Godwin Anaughe, clarified that the comment focused those that manipulate outcomes or steal electoral supplies, not unusual voters. The former senator maintained that the slogan was a warning towards malpractice and a name to guard the folks’s mandate.

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