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We Are Ready For Saturday Elections-Hadiza Bala Usman

The APC Presidential Campaign Council has said that only the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can say whether the rescheduled Presidential election will go ahead as scheduled, saying the APC were ready for the election.

Director of Contact and Mobilization, APC presidential campaign council, Hadiza Bala Usman who spoke after inspecting the election situation room of a civil society group, Yiaga in Abuja also seek collaboration between political parties and civil society group to monitor the workings of INEC and ensuring that electoral materials get to their destination on schedule.

She said “It’s important for APC as a political party to engage with civil society, to see what civil society is doing to ensure a free and fair election. We are keen to have a transparent, free and fair election. So, we encourage observers, we encourage any form of interrogation of the process.

“I am here to lend the voice of the APC to show encouragement to the civil society and to encourage them to ensure that whatever is happening at the polling unit are highlighted for the world to see and whatever incidences  happen are brought up for the necessary agencies to deal with. We want the security agencies to be on ground to provide the necessary support, where INEC is required to deploy additional input and we believe that such situation rooms are very helpful and necessary for such feedbacks

This is an election situation room, would you have preferred something to the run up of the election?

“With what has happened and with the postponement of the election, I think pre-election day situation room is important so that we can see where our materials are in the country? Have they started been moved to the necessary voting points? Are the right materials being deployed to the right places? So such pre-election situation rooms are important.

It is important for us and the political parties, for APC and indeed civil society groups to put a spotlight on the election monitor to ensure that this postponement that happened will not be repeated again and for us to monitor and follow Election material. You are all aware that some of the critical errors around voter concern has to do with election materials, if the especially sensitive ones fall into the wrong hands. We are open to any form of manipulation and so, it’s imperative that we put a spotlight and follow the sensitive material, follow what INEC is doing.

One of the presidential candidate is asking INEC to extend the rescheduled election beyond this Saturday, what is the view of APC?

“Our view is that INEC knows what it’s doing and they the determinant of whether it is ready for Saturday. INEC conveyed to all Nigerians that it is ready to conduct the elections on Saturday. So we look forward to see what INEC will say next.  For us in APC, we were ready for the election on Saturday 16 and we are indeed ready for Saturday 23rd. We look forward to INEC briefing us as we requested on a daily basis to ensure that materials are deployed anf in the right place at the right time. Ad I mentioned earlier, INEC is the umpire, and will tell us whether there is any additional postponement. But we are ready for Saturday the 23rd of February.”

The nation

Alliance Between Obasanjo, PDP Will Kill Nigeria – Former Senate President

A former Senate President, Ameh Ebute, has raised the alarm over the alleged alliance between ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ebute said the unholy union between Obasanjo and leadership of the PDP will fail, adding that it cannot destroy the gains recorded by the President Mohammadu Buhari-led federal government in the last few years.

Ebute, who is also the leader of the Congress for Patriotic Citizens (CPC), at a press conference in Abuja today, called on Nigerians to rise to the challenge of confronting and subduing unpatriotic, corrupt and selfish past political office holders in order to save Nigeria from total collapse.

He said: “Other leaders of Nigeria since independence are not this privileged or so blessed. So, if today any one of us finds reason to complain that we are yet to nurture a nation we truly desire and to the maturity our founding fathers dreamt, a leader who should take the double blame is Chief Obasanjo. Why? Because leadership fell on him at Nigeria’s most auspicious moments. But we saw nothing he did wonderfully.”

He said the CPC finds it completely distasteful, the present gang-up and conspiracy against Nigeria by the PDP and the former president.

“We cannot understand Obasanjo anymore. We do not know what he implies when he accuses INEC of ‘recruiting collation officers who are already awarding results based on their projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda in which the people will not matter and the votes will not count.’ As former President of Nigeria, isn’t this statement too fluid? Even if Chief Obasanjo hates Buhari, hatchet jobs like this one, as contained in his recent letter, should be left for his boys.”

Daily trust

Don’t Lose Hope In Electoral System, Buhari Tells Nigerians

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, encouraged Nigerians not to lose hope in the electoral system.

He said this in a special broadcast shared on his verified Twitter handle as well as on the Facebook page of Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.

In the video, Buhari encouraged Nigerians to go and vote during the rescheduled polls on Saturday.

He said, “I wish to commiserate with millions of Nigerians who either travelled hundreds of kilometres to cast their votes or who put so many things on hold in order to cast their votes last weekend, but couldn’t do so. I thank you for your commitment and appeal to you not to lose hope in our electoral system.

“I ask you not to allow the unexpected postponement of the election dates by Independent National Electoral Commission to prevent you from exercising your civic rights. Your enthusiasm for the process and your determination to vote in the election must not be dampened.

“I urge all Nigerian voters to brave the challenges and ensure that they cast their votes. This government assures all voters of their protection before, during and after the polls.

“I also thank Nigerians for their patience and trust in our government to deliver credible elections where your votes will count. Your votes will count as we are committed to rid our electoral process of vote buying and manipulations.

“Thank you and God bless the people and Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

Saturday, Day Of Reckoning For Opposition—Ajimobi

He said this on Tuesday while addressing a stakeholders’ forum at the Western House in Ibadan.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajimobi is the Oyo South Senatorial District candidate of the All Progressives Congress.

NAN reports that the postponed Presidential and National Assembly elections would now hold on Feb. 23.

Ajimobi urged APC leaders and supporters to remain steadfast and faithful to the course of the party by coming out en masse to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari to consolidate on the gains of the past four years.

The governor warned against complacency, adding that the “ desperation of the opposition to upset the applecart was unimaginable.’’

Ajimobi, who attended the APC NEC meeting in Abuja on Monday, said the national leadership of the party had given the state executive committees marching orders to reenergise the party’s campaigns.

He said that the APC was at peace with itself at the national and state levels judging by the huge turnout at its campaign rallies.

“ The opposition has adopted all manners of subterfuge and empty rhetoric to mislead the people into supporting them without success.

“ Our people have refused to buy into their deceits, hence their desperation and provocative statements.

“I want to appeal to you not to let off your guard for a moment until victory is assured in all the elections.

“We should not be complacent because the opposition is throwing everything into this election as if the world will end when, mark my word I did not say if, they lose.

“ This Saturday is a day of reckoning for the PDP for its 16 years of misrule.

“After ruining our economy and creating many loopholes and leakages that has pauperised the people and enriched their friends, they are now desperate to stage a comeback,” he said.

Ajimobi said the APC had in the last four years invested in the people at the national level and eight years at our state level, adding abandoned infrastructure and projects had been revived with many at different stages of completion.

“Saturday is around the corner. All APC leaders and members should go back to their various units and wards to solicit the continued support of the good people of Nigeria. That is the mandate from our meeting on Monday in Abuja.

“Be proud to be part of history by playing your part in the impending victory of Buhari and all APC candidates in the coming elections.

“I, once again, also urge you to vote for me on Saturday to represent Oyo South in the Senate,” he said.

The governor said that he had laboured hard in the past eight years to build a new Oyo State which he said had become a pride of the citizens and the toast of investors and visitors.

He pledged to attract more developments to the state if reelected as senator, urging
stakeholders to go back to their communities and re-energise the APC campaign till midnight on Thursday.

“Apart from ensuring pervading peace across the state, our infrastructural revolution has given every community in the state a sense of belonging and a fair share of the dividends of democracy,’’ he said. (NAN)

Presidency: Buhari’s Order On Snatching Of Ballot Box ‘Strong Message’ Against Savagery

The Presidency says that President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on snatching of ballot box is a “strong message’’ against the long history of savagery associated with elections in the country.

Buhari had on Monday, during the emergency caucus meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, warned that anyone who dared to snatch ballot boxes during Saturday’s elections would be doing so for the last time.

Speaking to State House Correspondents on Monday, Presidential Spokesperson, Malam Garba Shehu, said that the president had the safety and security of Nigerians uppermost in mind when he made the comment.

He said, therefore, that the president should be praised rather than criticised for issuing “the stern warning to potential ballot box snatchers’’.

Shehu recalled some past elections in parts of Nigeria, during which voters lost their lives while ballot boxes were being snatched by armed thugs.

He said: “Snatching ballot boxes often entails putting the lives of innocent Nigerians at risk.

“About 10 years ago, evidence was brought before an election tribunal from one of the states in North Central of the gruesome killing of 26 prospective voters by ballot box snatchers.

“Their modus operandi is well known. They storm election venues in commando style, overwhelm the law-enforcement agents and seize ballot boxes, leaving a trail of death and injury.

“Anyone who dares to put the lives of innocent citizens at risk in their desperation to rig elections must be prepared for the possibility of losing their own lives.

“This is because our security agents will certainly not stand by, clap for them and watch them kill and maim.’’

The presidential aide expressed concern about those attacking the president’s comment, and their worry over the fate of anyone caught snatching ballot boxes.

“This sounds like members of the opposition, specifically the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who have perfected plans to rig the elections and to snatch ballot boxes.

“They can tell that President Buhari is not prepared to tolerate their antics this time around, and they are afraid. They have shown their intent,” he said.

He noted that no one had anything to fear from the president’s comments if their consciences and intentions were clear.

“Let’s just have free and fair elections and no one need worry about anything,” Shehu stated. (NAN)

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