By Jennifer Y Omiloli
On Monday, President Buhari issued warnings at the opening of the meeting of the Caucus of APC in Abuja to deliberate on the postponement of the elections.
Buhari said: “Anyone who decides to snatch ballot boxes; this will be the last thing the persons will attempt to do.’’
He equally warned that security forces, including soldiers, have been put on the alert to carry out the task of securing free and fair elections.
“I want Nigeria to be respected. I am not afraid of the elections because I went round all the states.’’
Buhari said he would not encourage rigging because he campaigned vigorously, visiting all the states and has the assurances that he had done well in his campaign.
He also directed governors in states controlled by APC ‘s governments to deploy committed APC members to man all the polling units and chairmen and governorship candidates of in other states should ensure same.
President Buhari said that the elections should be conducted peacefully in all the 176,000 polling stations.
He also stated that after the elections, the government would want to know what happened that caused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the elections.
“What is the need accepting incompetence? The Constitutions and law protect INEC but they should not take us for granted.
The National Assembly and the government did all they could to provide for INEC, therefore “we do not understand what has happened’’.
“We will need to go into details of what caused the postponement of the elections,’’ he warned.
Those in attendance included Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole.
Others at the meeting were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, APC members of the National Assembly, APC State governors from Lagos, Niger, Zamfara, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Borno, Bauchi and Kaduna
