As preparations heat up ahead of 2015 general elections, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Monday stated that the level of insecurity in the country was a threat to free, fair and credible elections.
The governor, made these observations while playing host to students from the Royal College of Defence Studies, United Kingdom, UK led by Rear Admiral Jonas Haggren, at the State House, Alausa Ikeja.
According to Fashola, “Insecurity is a threat every time. It is not only to electoral process, even to human existence and business activities
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“I hope we will be done with this in a short time; in a way that it will not impede the ability and desire of Nigerians to make a choice at the next election.
“Every election brings up the contest of idea and opportunity to make the choice either to keep the incumbent government or to elect another party to govern the country. And I don’t think that it will be different in Nigeria next year.”
He, however, refuted the claim in some quarters that the All Progressives Congress, APC, had concluded plans on the party’s flag bearer for the 2015 presidential election, saying; “I believe everyone who has aspiration will be given fair chance to express and ventilate that aspiration.
“There is nothing unusual in the emergency of the presidential candidate for APC. It will be an open activity and high level of accountability.
“I believe everyone who has aspiration will be given fair chance to express and ventilate that aspiration. Nothing unusual will happen. There will not be anything behind the closet,” he added.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
