Members and supporters of the
Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) led by Comrade Moshood Oshunfunrewa, the party's Candidate
for Lagos House of Assembly representing Ajeromi Ifelodun, took active
participation in the “door
to door”,
“house
to house”
campaign initiated by SPN Ajegunle on Saturday 29/12/2018. At Aiyetoro (an
annex in Ajegunle), at least three streets and thirty compounds were covered.
Hundreds of the campaign leaflet were circulated.
For socialists, the “House to House” campaign is a medium of not only
reaching out but talking to people directly that make up the working masses. To
have a close relationship with the mass in the community, on their perception
about politics and largely, and what must be done.
There were huge dissatisfaction
among residents in the community over the disappointment of the failed policies
of APC, PDP etc. However, SPN supporters were able to convince residents about
the difference between SPN and big anti-poor political parties, who since 1999
have unleashed attacks on the masses.
Most of the people who collected
the leaflets expressed anger over what the ruling parties have done including
the failure to provide social welfare in the community. That when election is
at the corner, "politicians" will come around to seek for their vote.
But supporters of SPN engaged most of these questions by explaining how the SPN
is far different.
We explained that the SPN is a
party formed by the working masses like them and asked them to join us as
working people to begin to challenge the anti-poor capitalist policies and
programme of the APC, PDP etc responsible to the rise of poverty, suffering and
most worrisome, the incessant killings in the community caused by failed
policies; failing to provide free social welfare and services.
A woman (in one of the compounds at
Jibowu Street) said: “after
we vote for you people, we will not see the elected officers again. They will
relocate away from the community as the usual politicians do, far from us the
masses to high places like Abuja, Lekki etc we the poor are not able to reach
them”.
She added, "I don't want waste my vote".
She expressed this out of the past
election where "politicians" of the ruling parties came with empty promises, without doing the needful. We explained that the SPN is not a pro-rich
party whose programme is to implement capitalist policies that impoverish the
masses.
To convince the old woman, a part
in the campaign leaflet of what the SPN stands for was read out loudly to her.
The same thing was done to other residents in the community who are living in
the cluster of poverty, who immediately indicated interest to join the party.
One Mr. Sunday who spoke bitterly about
his experience about how the APC, has roughly used people like him in the past
said. "anything party I don't want to be part". Sadly, "all
parties are the same". But after much discussion with him and going through
the leaflets. His tune altered especially when reading the areas of what SPN is
all about.
A woman wanted to know whether the
SPN, " is not a place where people
fighting…
because of what most political parties are now doing". She probably asked this because she wanted to
know whether the Socialist Party of Nigeria is a place for people like her.
In the outing, a lot of people who
had seen the faces of the organization: DSM, APM, ERC involved largely in the
community struggles like police brutality, incessant killings etc and the
electricity campaign currently going on, register huge sympathy for SPN.
However, they were encouraged to join the party.
It is not only to show
"sympathy" but join the party for us as working people to ultimately
wrest power, and have in place a socialist planned society. Without this, the
ruling parties of APC, PDP etc will continue to enslave the poor.
After much discussion with people
in Yoruba, Pidgin and English languages to communicate, twenty-six (26) persons
of old and young especially women who are artisans, food vendors etc indicated
interest to join the party. Not only join but to know more about SPN.
By
Davy Fidel
Ajeremi Ifelodun SPN
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