A group, Mass Movement for Buhari
2015, has called on the military
authorities to “commence
investigations” into allegations by
Captain Sagir Koli of how the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party “used
soldiers to rig the 2014
governorship election in Ekiti
State.”
The organisation said the demand
became necessary in order to
forestall a repeat of the incident in
the forthcoming general elections
scheduled for March 28.
The National Coordinator of MMB,
Kenneth Ibe-Kalu, in a statement
issued on Sunday in Abuja insisted
that “the Army must fish out the
culprits involved in the anomaly
and punish erring officers according
to military rules.”
The MMB also advised President
Goodluck Jonathan to resign for
alleged dereliction of duty as the
Commander-in-Chief, following his
response during the recent media
chat that he was not aware of the
letter from the security chiefs to
the Independent National Electoral
Commission which led to the
postponement of the 2015
elections from February 14.
He urged INEC to ignore calls by
some fraudulent politicians to
jettison the use of electronic card
readers in the conduct of the 2015
elections.
Ibe-Kalu said, “We reject the call on
INEC to discard the card reader they
had acquired for 2015 elections. On
the claim by the PDP National
Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, that
it has not been tested, may we
remind him that Nigeria is not the
first country to use card reader
since its invention. Therefore, it is
ignorance on his part to fault its
performance.”
He also advised the military to
restrict their actions to the dictates
of their oath of office, “which is to
protect the territorial integrity of
Nigeria and to protect our
constitution and democracy.”
According to him, the military
should not conceive the idea of
staging a coup under any guise”
because Nigerians and the
international community would
resist any attempt to undermine
the country’s democracy.
“If the reason of shifting elections
is for the PDP and the Presidency to
devise devious means of rigging
the March 28 presidential election,
they had better forget that idea as
Nigerians will never accept nor
even consider it. Jonathan has all
the chance to be on the positive
side of history if he conducts an
acceptable free and fair election,”
Ibe-Kalu stated.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
