#DontKillUsForVotes | The Hashtag of violence free poll in Nigeria. Via @Adungbe

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 1. #DontKillUsForVotes When I see or read people agitating for the release of the results of the Rivers state re-run election,

2. I am amused, disgusted and angry all the same time. I’m amused because in this country, #DontKillUsForVotes

3. we never learn from our past mistakes, disgusted because it seems the release of results from a flawed election #DontKillUsForVotes

4. is more important than dealing with the issues that made the elections flawed. #DontKillUsForVotes

5. then angry that people don’t seem to understand that we can’t keep allowing things like this happen.#DontKillUsForVotes

6. Before we blame INEC for everything that went wrong in Rivers state, let’s step back a bit and look at the issues dispassionately; #DontKillUsForVotes

7. What exactly is the role of INEC when it comes to elections? #DontKillUsForVotes

8. It’s simple. INEC’s job is to organise and conduct elections. That is what they are mandated to do #DontKillUsForVotes

9.  But I see a lot of people think INEC also has the job of making sure there is law and order and ensuring that there is no violence during elections.#DontKillUsForVotes

10.  INEC isn’t the Police, neither are they the Army or any of the other security agencies.#DontKillUsForVotes

11.  INEC’s job is not to ensure that there is no violence in a vicinity so why they keep getting blamed for the security mishaps during an election is beyond me. #DontKillUsForVotes

12. The politicians in Rivers state of both parties made the state a battle ground.
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13. There was killings, abductions, be-headings and maiming in the run up to the re-run election #DontKillUsForVotes

14.  and it got worse as the election grew closer. #DontKillUsForVotes

15. The day of the elections was war between the two major political parties.
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16.  Principal actors were busy trying to use their power and position to thwart what should have been an uneventful voting experience #DontKillUsForVotes

17. while their thugs and lackeys were busy appropriating election materials and causing all manner of mayhem. #DontKillUsForVotes

18. The security forces were at times overwhelmed while some of them were obviously polarized. #DontKillUsForVotes

19 and partisan depending on what side of the political fence they were leaning on. #DontKillUsForVotes

20. In all of these, how is INEC to blame? What should INEC have done in preparation for the election that wasn’t done? #DontKillUsForVotes

21. Can we focus on whom needs to take the blame for the farce of an election? #DontKillUsForVotes

22. The politicians. That’s who. #DontKillUsForVotes

23. These set of individuals, because of votes turned a whole state into a security crisis #DontKillUsForVotes

24. and they still have the temerity to demand for the release of results?#DontKillUsForVotes

25 One of them was quoted to have said “I am not justifying the killings, but you can not shout Political Killing when no politician of note has been killed” #DontKillUsForVotes

26. It is worrisome that people don’t find statements like this and others that were said in the course of the re-run period disturbing.#DontKillUsForVotes

27. An election fraught with massive irregularities and violence at every angle caused by these politicians; #DontKillUsForVotes

28. and somehow they’ve made it INEC’s fault. #DontKillUsForVotes

29. I find it unfair that an INEC office in a local government area in River’s state was burnt #DontKillUsForVotes

30. and a youth corper working as an INEC ad-hoc official was murdered coupled with other instances of violence
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31. and all these politicians are bothered about are the results of their mischief. #DontKillUsForVotes

32. We would always keep going round in circles if we don’t do something to curb this in the bud now. #DontKillUsForVotes

33. We need to do all in our power to discourage electoral violence. #DontKillUsForVotes

34. People shouldn’t have to die for their votes. INEC workers shouldn’t have to die while doing their jobs. #DontKillUsForVotes

35. I am personally of the opinion that any area that makes peaceful, free, fair and credible elections impossible doesn’t deserve representation. #DontKillUsForVotes

36. If the politicians; the major instigators of electoral violence know that they risk missing the opportunity
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37.  of representing their people and realize that they can go four years without any form of representation, #DontKillUsForVotes

38. perhaps they would sit up and act right. A bit drastic. Yes..but then desperate times call for drastic measures. #DontKillUsForVotes

39. Electoral malpractices culprits when caught have to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. #DontKillUsForVotes

40. We can’t keep recording violence over every election. It isn’t right and it should stop. #DontKillUsForVotes

41. It is another ploy of the politicians to cast aspersion on INEC. INEC didn’t make Rivers state unbearable. #DontKillUsForVotes

42. The politicians did. INEC didn’t make Rivers state unsafe. #DontKillUsForVotes

43. The politicians did. INEC is not the one holding Rivers state back. The politicians are.#DontKillUsForVotes

44. *This piece was sent in by Peter Arumemi. Mr. Arumemi lives in Port Harcourt. #DontKillUsForVotes

45. The #DontKillUsForVotes is an advocacy message of @IVotesng. Join us now.