In response to the allegation that was posted on the front page of this web and on the newspaper

[Jonathan Postponed Elections To Frustrate Buhari'– New York Times.........]
https://www.nairaland.com/2151549/jonathan-postponed-elections-frustrate-buhari

The Nigerian Ambassador to the united States came forward to faulted the published editorial and his words are seen below

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Ade Adefuye, on Tuesday faulted an editorial published by the New York Times on the postponement of the general elections in Nigeria.
“I was shocked and disappointed to read your editorial of Feb.16 titled ‘Nigeria Miserable Choices’ because it distorted and omitted important facts,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
The publication had in its editorial said the main reason Nigeria’s elections were postponed was to frustrate Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress.
Mr. Adefuye explained that the decision to postpone the election was made by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and not by President Goodluck Jonathan.
“The election management body has always been allowed a freehand in conduct of its activities including the time table for the elections. In arriving at the decision to postpone the elections, INEC chief, Prof. Jega, said ‘no one pressurised INEC to take the decision,” the ambassador said.
He said in arriving at the decision, the commission took into consideration the prevailing situation in the country in the build up to the Feb. 14 earlier scheduled for the commencement of the elections.
According to him, the issues involved included distribution of the permanent voter cards, card readers and security.
He said the issues were acknowledged in a research conducted by the U.S.-based National Democratic Institute and the International Republic Institute after a four-week stay in Nigeria.
“The research was sponsored by the U.S. State Department and has been published; it is surprising that The New York Times is not aware or chose to ignore this report,” he said.
Mr. Adefuye argued that Boko Haram constituted a serious threat to the country and that government had in the recent past made appreciable progress in tackling the problem.
“Boko Haram will soon be a thing of the past. It is simply not practicable to be fighting Boko Haram and be providing the security necessary for the elections. It is very clear that this editorial of yours was motivated by bias and ignorance both of which are inexcusable,” he said.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177046-new-york-times-biased-ignorant-nigerian-govt.html

The ambassador shouldn't dignify them with a response.

Saharareporters are based in New york and have probably conived with the new york times through apc to write trash about Nigeria.

americans are willing to be used because they are frustrated. Obama has commited a lot of foreign policy errors recently. The so called arab spring they sponsored has destroyed the nations where it occured. Check out libya, Egypt, syria etc they are yet to recover. ISIS are terrorizing them too. To make things worse, Russia has annexed crimea and is at the verge of annexing the whole of ukraine, america's new found ally.

They want to seek new sphere of influence by installing apc, Nigeria's muslims brotherhood but will fail as usual.

2nd to comment. God don dey do am small small

Bb