The
All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.), has said it will be too bad if the Independent National
Electoral Commission allows itself to be compromised to shift the
general election or allow irregularities in the voting process.
Buhari made the statement in an interview published on Reuters on
Friday, saying he was optimistic that he would win the election and
that he would approach the courts if there are irregularities in the
voting process. He said he would not call his followers into the
streets.
Buhari said, “I’m optimistic that I
won’t lose. But we signed an undertaking that it will be violence –
free. We are attempting to stabilise a multi – party democratic system.
“There will be no delay. But if INEC is compromised then it will be too bad,” Buhari said.
The APC had said that the only reason
the pro-Jonathan camp was pushing for a delay of the elections was
because it knew that the president would lose if voting should hold as
planned.
On the insurgency in the country, the
APC candidate said it was a disgrace that neighbouring countries like
Chad, Niger and Cameroon had been more successful than Nigeria in the
battle against the Boko Haram insurgency.
Buhari told Reuters that, “It’s a big
disgrace for Nigeria. It is now Cameroon and Chad fighting the
insurgency more than Nigeria. We will build the capacity and Nigeria
should be able to secure its territorial integrity
“Our main objective is to secure the
country. We will not tolerate insurgency, sabotage of the economy by
blowing up of installations, by stealing crude and so on. All these
things will be things of the past.”
He assured that his administration would
tackle corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and
reopen an investigation into the missing crude revenues of around $20bn,
adding that he would tackle the theft of crude tapped from pipelines in
the Niger Delta.
Source: Punch
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