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Postponement call meant to cause disaffection

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Dasuki-SamboThe Buhari Support Organisation, the umbrella body of over 300 voluntary organisation working for the election of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, said yesterday that the suggestion by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, that the forthcoming general election should be postponed was intended to overheat the polity and cause disaffection among Nigerians.

The organisation also said that the call was a tactical way of rigging the presidential election in favour of President Goodluck Jonathan, and called on former Nigeria leaders and the international community not to keep quiet but to speak out on the need to allow the elections to go ahead in other to preserve the sanctity of the nation.

The APC Caucus in the House of Representatives also yesterday claimed that the calls for postponement of the forthcoming elections were impelled by fears in the camp of President Goodluck Jonathan that he will lose the presidential election.Spokesman of the Buhari Support Organisation, Dr. Chidia Maduekwe, said at a news conference in Abuja yesterday that Nigerians are ready to exercise their right and vote out this current government, saying that Nigerians will resist any form of electoral impunity foisted on them.

Expressing disappointment with the National Security Adviser for the suggestion, he said: “We are totally taken aback by the suggestions made yesterday by the National Security Adviser to the effect that the February elections be postponed.

“As the NSA, he is a very highly placed key figure and a close associate of Mr. President. It is expected that he should be very conversant with the security implications of such postponement and should rather advise to the contrary, even if that is what the boss would have preferred.

“These are all indications that the PDP does not truly want open democratic contest in which Nigerians will decide who leads them after this corrupt dispensation. We condemn in its entirety such careless, provocative and crisis-prone statement from such a high level of government.

“This is certainly the high point of the serial breaches to the Abuja accord by the PDP government. This suggestion is intended to overheat the polity by causing severe disaffection among the generality of the public with attendant disastrous consequences.

“A stitch in time, they say, saves nine. We therefore call on the PDP-led administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to allow the Nigerian people to freely express their choice and determination for a free and fair election devoid of any exogenous technical rigging and manipulation by shifting the goal post.

“Today, we appeal to the international community for assistance to advice President Goodluck Jonathan on the need to keep strictly to the terms of the Abuja accord and not push his good luck too far. Nigerians are prepared and ready to cast their votes come February 2015.”

The organization posited that any effort to postpone the elections would amount to rigging in favour of the incumbent.

“INEC have repeatedly maintained its stand that it is ready. They have in the last four years prepared and promised Nigerians that they are set to deliver.

“We call on all our elder statesmen and former presidents of this country to speak truth to power and let the needful be done to preserve the sanctity of our dear nation.

“We also plead with the sponsors of the Abuja accord to deploy their local and international reach and bring their wealth of experience to prevent the abortion of this well thought out plan for Nigeria to hold a peaceful national election in February 2015.

“We call on civil societies, trade unions, organised labour and associations of professionals to rise up to this occasion and assist INEC to deliver on their promise to conduct the February 2015 elections.

“We wish to draw the early attention of ECOWAS, the AU and UN to this plan to truncate democracy in Nigeria by a sitting government afraid of losing election for the first time in Nigeria’s political history, even though it happens frequently in other civilised democracies.

“Nigerians are poised to redeem their nation from 16 years misrule. They want to embark on the process through democratic means as provided for in our constitution.”

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and leader of APC House caucus, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday said the plan to “unconstitutionally extend the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan” will not work,

In a statement signed by his Research and Media Assistant, Wasiu Olanrewaju-Smart, the lawmaker said the clandestine move by President Jonathan’s government to extend its tenure is stimulated by “fear of imminent defeat and an afterthought ready to die in the manner of Obasanjo’s third term plot.”

The lawmaker flayed the call of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, who had on Thursday in London called for a postponement of the elections on the premise that the permanent voter cards had not been fully distributed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Gbajabiamila said the National Security Adviser only expressed his opinion because he does not have any constitutional role in the distribution of voter cards.

He said: “This was the plot all along. The NSA has no role to play in the distribution of permanent voter cards. Whatever they do and however they do it, they cannot go against the provisions of the constitution, which is sacrosanct and must be obeyed.”

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