Polls shift is wrong deal by wrong man, says Tinubu
The National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ahmed Tinubu, has flayed the decision to postpone the general elections, describing the security concerns given as a cover for the desperation of President Goodluck Jonathan to avoid defeat.
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In a statement yesterday, Tinubu said: “They were postponed because one man, President Jonathan, feared that an election held on February 14 would for him become an election lost. While the mouth was Jega, the words were Jonathan’s.
“He chose to place our democracy at risk than do what democracy demands by facing and risking the verdict of the people. That he would use our security agencies to provide his excuse only adds insult to injury.
In a statement yesterday, Tinubu said: “They were postponed because one man, President Jonathan, feared that an election held on February 14 would for him become an election lost. While the mouth was Jega, the words were Jonathan’s.
“He chose to place our democracy at risk than do what democracy demands by facing and risking the verdict of the people. That he would use our security agencies to provide his excuse only adds insult to injury.
“President Jonathan has revealed that he only wants elections where the guaranty is that he shall win. This is not the nature of democratic elections.
“If elections could hold in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, why not in Nigeria where only 14 out of 774 council areas are under siege? This postponement may be the prelude to even rasher more authoritarian action by this desperate, inept government.”
“If elections could hold in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, why not in Nigeria where only 14 out of 774 council areas are under siege? This postponement may be the prelude to even rasher more authoritarian action by this desperate, inept government.”
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