The All Progressives
Congress (APC) has rejected the call by the National Security Adviser, Col.
Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), 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.
APC said that the importance of elections cannot be over-emphasized, “Election
is the lifeblood of democracy, the mechanism by which modern representative
democracy operates.
“It
is the only way for the citizenry to renew and refresh the governing process so
they can get the most benefits out of democracy. Therefore, anyone that tries
to sabotage this mechanism is aiming a dagger straight to the heart of
democracy.
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