Actor cum politician, Desmond Elliot has again tendered a public apology for making insensitive comments about the youths during the 2020 Endsars protest in the country.
The Lagos Assembly Lawmaker representing the Surulere I constituency at the State legislature was berated on social media for referring to the youths of the country as his children for getting involved in the Endsars protest while pushing for social media regulation on the floor of the house.
However, in a swift response, Elliot had in October 2020 issued a statement in which he apologised to those whose toes he stepped on with his comments.
Elliot clarified the statement recently, while featuring on a TV programme your View on TVC, where he explained that he wasn’t referring to all youths on social media as children but those who were cursing Lagos House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.
He said: “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.”