Tope Balogun, the Lagos State governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), has bared his mind to Nigerians on what to learn from the Brazil presidential election as the 2023 general elections comes closer.
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Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was declared winner of the Brazil presidential election on Sunday after defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a keenly-contested poll.
According to VanguardNGR:
In an exclusive interview with Vanguard, Balogun identified four things as lessons for Nigerians to pick from the just conclude presidential election in Brazil.
He said the incumbent president was defeatable by the masses preference for a better candidate in a free and fair contest as experienced in the election
“Secondly, the importance of having concern for the economic conditions of masses which was the major reasons the masses preferred a former president who had the albatross of being jailed but later freed than voting to keep someone, who messed their economic condition up.
“Thirdly, the optimality in curbing election malpractices as much as possible through electronic voting.
“Fourthly, the idea of patriotism through collaboration to save the nation as depicted by the candidacy of the former president and his former arch rival to win the election for the populace,” he added.
