2023 Elections: Desmond Elliot tenders public apology over insensitive statement to youths during the #EndSars protest

Desmond Elliot has again tendered a public apology for his insensitive comments about the youths during October 2020 EndSARS protest.

This is coming as he is seeking reelection into the House of Reps seat for Surulere Constituency in Lagos state.

He tendered his apology during a recent interview on TVC’s ‘Your View’. He insisted that he wasn’t referring to all youths on social media as children but those who were cursing Lagos House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru.

 “What I can say is, I think forgiveness is divine. I mean, no one owns it all. Something can be your truth, and to another person, it might not be. I do not think going back to bring out those sensitive moments would do anything.

“I think at the end of the day, I apologised, and I’m still apologising to those who must have misconstrued what I said. I said I was taken by emotions, but in the end, it still didn’t take away from the fact that the hatred was too much. The polity, the hatred is too much. We are all built on love. We can change things through love, he said