Senator Adams Oshiomole has advised his colleagues and other politicians to stop rigging Election and arming thugs. The Former Edo state governor cum lawmaker, made the plea while speaking during the debate on Electoral Reforms in the Senate in Wednesday, October 22.

In his words, ‘’As elected persons, we as Senators shall not, directly or indirectly, secretly or openly, aid and abet unemployed or semi-employed people and arm them to disrupt elections, If we reform our character, this problem is 90% solved.

In Edo state, I launched one man, one vote, At the end of the day and as of today, it is now impossible to do election without counting dead bodies. It wasn't so before because we convinced everybody that there is no merit in taking election as if it is a state of war.

The beauty of democracy is not the fact that you find yourself occupying an important elective office. It is the feeling in your heart that people actually in their free will, found you worthy to be their voice and to entrust our collective patrimony in your hands to manage to deliver the greatest good to the greatest number. That for me is the beauty.

If you achieve it through rigging or other manipulation, deep in your heart you know you are not a happy person. After every election, violent crime increases because the politicians who have procured weapons for children who are hungry and pay them a little fee, once the election is over, they are not able to retrieve the weapons and the weapons are then deployed by these people for violence. You can see a strong correlation between the level of criminality, robbery etcetera immediately after the election because these people have been abandoned since results have been given'''