Actor and politician, Desmond Elliot, has begged for forgiveness over the comment he made during the ENDSARS crisis, saying hatred towards him is becoming too much.
Elliot came under intense bashing after a video of him calling the youth protesting during the #ENDSARS as children during a plenary session at the Lagos state House of Assembly went viral
The youth are still enraged by the comment even as the actor seeks reelection into the Lagos House of Assembly.
Speaking on TVC’s Your View, ‘Let’s Talk’, the lawmaker apologized for the comment, explaining he made the comment out of emotions.
“I’m still apologising to those who must have misconstrued what I said. I said I was taken by emotions,” he said.
“But, in the end, it still didn’t take away from the facts; the hatred is too much, the polity, the hatred is too much.”
The actor-cum-politician also revealed that the hatred has extended to the streets as he gets verbal attacks whenever he steps out.
“I’m in politics now for eight years and I still stand on the fact that love conquers all. I mean I’ve gone out in the streets and people still curse me,” he said.
“But I’m not afraid, I’m not ashamed because they don’t understand the stress that you go through.”