APC Condemns Postponement of Elections, Asks INEC to Be Neutral

In the wake of the events unfolding as INEC postpones the 2019 General elections, The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). 

In a statement released in the early hours of Saturday by the spokesperson for APC’s Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Festus Keyamo, he said the party faulted the decision of the electoral umpire.

Keyamo, who is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said they received the news of INEC’s decision with “great disappointment and disillusionment”. 

We condemn and deprecate this tardiness of the electoral umpire in the strongest terms possible. President Muhammadu Buhari had since cooperated fully with INEC by ensuring everything it demanded to conduct free and fair elections were promptly made available to it.

The APC campaign council spokesman noted that the postponement was a disappointment to his party and their supporters across the country and therefore, warned INEC against bowing to the purported pressure of the opposition which he said was not ready for the elections.

According to Keyamo, credible demographic projections have predicted a defeat of the opposition party and it needs the breather to halt President Muhammadu Buhari’s momentum.

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He further stated “We do hope that INEC will remain neutral and impartial in this process as the rumour mill is agog with the suggestion that this postponement has been orchestrated in collusion with the main opposition.”

The council spokesman added

It is in the light of the above that we wish to appeal to Nigerians and our supporters to be patient, calm and resolute despite this temporary setback. Let us not give anyone … the opportunity to plunge this nation into a crisis, which is what they earnestly desire.

We expect more reactions from the candidates, the party members, and Nigerians at large as mixed feelings continue in the wake of the events that started in the early hours of Saturday morning.