Polls-shift-rejection averts major political crisis – Buhari campaign

  The National Council of State’s decision that rejected the proposed postponement of February general elections has averted a major political and constitutional crisis, the Buhari campaign office said Thursday. It is a “triumph of the nation and its people over parochial individual and political interest,” the campaign media and publicity director Malam Garba Shehu […]

 

The National Council of State’s decision that rejected the proposed postponement of February general elections has averted a major political and constitutional crisis, the Buhari campaign office said Thursday.

It is a “triumph of the nation and its people over parochial individual and political interest,” the campaign media and publicity director Malam Garba Shehu said in a statement.

“We are heartened that a major crisis of political and constitutional nature has been averted which would have made Nigeria the laughing stock of the civilised world,” the opposition campaign office said.

The campaign said the position of the Council of State vindicates the position of millions of Nigerians who are ready and keen on the elections and who want to change the circumstances of the country.

It added that upholding the February 14, 2015 date and other scheduled dates for the election, confirms the sacrosanct nature of those dates as well as the May 29, 2015 handover date.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has always said it is ready for the polls, likewise all the security and intelligence agencies and more importantly, the Nigerian people, who are the voters. It would have been a terrible disservice if on the basis of personal interest the elections were postponed, it said.

The statement said: “No nation learns all the lessons of democracy at once thus it is the belief of our campaign that INEC, the electoral umpire still has the chance and is indeed determined and ready to organise credible polls next week and thereafter.

“We congratulate the masses of our people for the decision of the Council of State. This is a sure sign that Nigerian people are ready to sacrifice to back their country from the locusts which have turned it into a barren land.”