Governor Simon Lalong, the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign team, says it is time for presidential candidate Bola Tinubu to ‘chop’.
Following Tinubu’s ‘Emi lo kan’ (it is my turn) slang, Lalong’s statement further stresses the entitlement mentality that the APC candidate has.
“Emi lokan! Asiwaju has done good. It is his turn. It is your turn. It is our turn,” Lalong said at the top of his voice. “If you ‘chop’ alone, you die alone. It is not ‘chop’ alone. So, it is his turn to ‘chop’ too. And that is why ’emi lokan’ is very important.”
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Lalong made the statement on Tuesday during Tinubu’s campaign rally in Kwara.
The ‘chop’ slang is used to identify one’s entitlement to a share of the loot and in this scenario may mean a share of the ‘National cake’ that almost every politician wants to ‘chop’.
The video, which has been making rounds on social media, has received backlash from social media users and commentators.
Rinu Oduala, a social commentator and human rights activist Tuesday, said on Twitter, “They turned Nigeria to ‘chop, make I chop’.”
Another Twitter user, Plangkat Millaham said, “I’m ashamed to call this man my governor. APC has turned Nigeria into a ‘chop, make I chop’ system. A damn shame.”
