APC Rejects PDP's Call For the Postponement Of Febuary 14th Elections


Sambo Dasuki, President Goodluck Jonathan's National Security Adviser, said Nigeria should delay next month's elections to give organisers more time to distribute millions of biometric ID cards to voters.

He had told the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that a postponement within the three months allowed by the law would be a good idea. Sambo had given the advice during an event at the Chatham House in London on Thursday.

However, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the call for the postponement of the February general elections warning that under no circumstance must the elections be scuttled.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the APC said that the call by Col. Dasuki, had exposed the hitherto clandestine plot by the Jonathan Administration to push for the postponement of the polls, using all sorts of “cheap tricks”.

”Now that we have found the smoking gun, we are urging the international community, in particular, to urgently extract a commitment from President Goodluck Jonathan that the elections will hold as scheduled next month, and that he would respect the outcome, just as we have said,” it said.

The party also called on Nigerians to reject what it termed an ongoing orchestrated plot by President Jonathan’s administration to postpone the elections, saying the constitutional crisis that would be triggered by such postponement could undermine the nation’s democracy.

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