The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
raised the alarm over the relentless scheming
by the Jonathan Administration and the PDP
to push for another postponement of the 2015
general elections, unless they can perfect a
rigging plan, and called for the imposition of
global sanctions on whoever scuttles the polls.
In a statement , Sunday, by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said the multi-pronged efforts to
prevent the elections from holding as
rescheduled include the use of some 23
portfolio political parties to seek a further shift
in the election dates and the destabilization of
INEC’s election plan through the orchestrated
removal of its Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
It said the same 23 satellite parties of the
PDP that were used to push for the six-week
postponement of the elections have again
started testing the waters by pushing for a
further shift in the elections in the six-states of
the North-east, ostensibly to allow the
conclusion of the counter-insurgency battle and
also to allow those displaced to return home.
”The plan is to use the same bogey of
insecurity in the North-east to push for
another postponement in the elections. The
signs are ominous indeed. The body language
of the President and his party does not
support the holding of elections. They are
mortally afraid of losing because the use of
PVCs and Card Readers have thwarted their
rigging plans,” APC said.
File: Senate Questions Jega: INEC Chairman
Prof. Attahiru Jega addressing pressmen
shortly after interactive session with Senators
at Senate Chamber at National Assembly
Abuja. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.
The party said while the 23 parties are
pushing for the elections to be further
postponed, the Jonathan Administration and
the PDP are simultaneously forging ahead
with their plan to remove Prof. Jega and
replace him with a malleable acting Chairman
whom, they believe, will do their bidding.
”Once they remove Jega, his replacement will
either seek more time to organize the polls or
simply jettison the plan to use Card Readers,
thereby opening the door for those who have
been buying up PVCs to use them.
”Is it not interesting that the same
Administration that has been flaunting free
and fair elections as a key achievement has
now gone for the jugular of the same man who
organized those polls? Is the man they don’t
want not the same person who organized the
2011 polls which the Administration has
described as free, fair and credible? What
has now gone wrong between them and their
poster boy for successful elections? it queried.
APC warned that the consequences of another
postponement of the elections will be dire
indeed, especially because it will create a
constitutional crisis that is capable of
endangering the country’s democracy and
destabilizing the country in its entirety.
The party called on Nigerians, especially the
civil society, to be very vigilant in the days
ahead, as the cloud of uncertainty becomes
thicker and the vultures begin to circle.
It also called on the international community
to consider imposing stiff sanctions on key
members of the Jonathan Administration if
they force another postponement or scuttle the
polls.
”We believe that Nigerians themselves bear
the utmost responsibility for the success of their
nation’s democracy and the survival of their
country, and we commend those who have
stood up to be counted in the ongoing battle to
have free and fair elections.
”However, we also believe that the
international community has a role to play in
helping to check the desperadoes who are
using the Laurent Gbagbo rule book as if it
was made for them, and who will not hesitate
to bring the whole system crashing down on
all if that is what it will take for them to
perpetuate themselves in power.
”Nigeria is too important to be toyed with or
allowed to go under. For example, Nigerians
make up more than 56% of the estimated
ECOWAS population of 300 million. A
destabilized Nigeria, therefore, is a destabilized
West Africa and, indeed, a hobbled Africa!
”That is why we believe a travel ban and
tough economic sanctions from the
international community against these agents
of destabilization will be in order. This is a
patriotic call,” APC said.

GEJ DEY FEAR CHANGE O

We not prosponing d election, we will defeat apc and buhari just as we defeated boko haram, d subsidiary of apc.

We Still want CHANGE!!! If dem like postponed am to December, Still December2RememberBuhari #March4Buhari #March4GMB Sai Buhari Sai Baba