Festus Keyamo, Director, Strategic Communications, in a statement Saturday morning, condemned what he called the tardiness of the electoral umpire.
He said 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.
“This news is, therefore, a huge disappointment to us and to our teeming supporters nationwide and around the world, many of whom have come into the country to exercise their franchise”, the statement reads.
“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 PDP, that was never ready for this election.
“We note that all the major credible demographic projections have predicted a defeat of the PDP and it seriously needed this breather to orchestrate more devious strategies to try and halt President Buhari’s momentum. It did the same as the ruling Party in 2015, when it realized the game was up, by orchestrating the postponement of the 2015 elections by six weeks. Now, it may be up to its old trick again.
“We have earlier raised the alarm that the PDP is bent on discrediting this process the moment it realized it cannot make up the numbers to win this election. We are only urging INEC not collude with the PDP on this.
“We are truly worried because as early as Friday morning, some known PDP Social Media influencers unwittingly announced this postponement, but quickly deleted the message and apologized to the public that it was fake news. We do not want to be forced to a situation of announcing our total loss of confidence in INEC, because we know where that would leave our democracy.
“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, especially the PDP, the opportunity to plunge this nation into a crisis, which is what they earnestly desire. Its imminent defeat is just a few days away.
“Lastly, we wish to draw the attention of INEC and the world to observe that the PDP has clearly and openly said it plans to announce parallel results through some funny device it has procured or developed.
“We wish to reiterate that it is only INEC that is legally and constitutionally empowered to declare results and it constitutes an offence for anyone to do so. We urge INEC to speak up now and warn the PDP to desist from this ignoble act that is capable of plunging the nation into a crisis of immeasurable proportions.”
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And APC never gets tired of blaming PDP. Whether they like it or not it shall be well with Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck are they saying? If they are blaming pdp why don’t they sack the inec chiarman now, since he is supporting their opponent? They can’t sack him now, he is working for them.
DeleteBuhari is the highest scam Nigeria has ever experienced rubbish
I’ll just make do with the headline.
ReplyDeleteAPC suddenly becomes the opposition party. How can PDP influence the commission? Who do the commission report to? Festus Keyamo a.k.a Miss otobo is a disgrace of a SAN. Now I know why his becoming a SAN was delayed and took him so long. How can a man who spent many years in learning, comes up with such irrational statement? When will the blame game from a ruling party stop? So irresponsible set of hooligans drunk in power.
ReplyDeletePls what can money not do?! PDP is a powerful party, forget incumbency! Until we learn to trust no political party, Nigeria MAY never be free.
Delete08:29 are you for real? Do you mean a party is richer than a ruling government? Yes I will agree with you that PDP is a powerful country but not richer than people in government who are busy amassing wealth dubiously.
DeleteEzigbo miss Otobo.the first step in loosing is cancellation.thought the learnt from Jonathan.senseless people everywhere.we will survive this govt.
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Delete@ Mis Otobo got me rolling
Story for the gods. Chameleon. Ogun strike una dia. @Blessed Princess
ReplyDeleteHahhahaa the blame game continues. Nigeria is a zoo a beg. Stells what will happen to children public holidays abi na mid term break na? What will we do with them? Extra how many days at home. This country can frustrate someone sha.
ReplyDeleteYou can never make concrete plans. It must be disrupted. Stells am angry.
But wait oh, do ya all remember sometime back, one prophet prophesied the elections will be postponed? I don't recall his name, but when as at friday no news of postponement was going to call him fake, but here we go.
Im sure he will come out to claim that he prophesied it then we will know his name.
Yeah, Nigeria is a zoo and what animal are you in the zoo?
DeleteDon't you guys get tired of blaming PDP?
ReplyDeleteAre you claiming that PDP is so powerful that inspire you guys peppering INEC with your cronies, they still control it?
may GOD deliver you from the spirit of blame game a and passing the buck syndrome.
@Ladybug I dare you to come out and justify this disappointing action of INEC under that leadership of APC. @Blessed Princess
ReplyDeleteLady 🐛 don hide under PA buhari & PA tinubu babariga while osho baba & Amechi cover her legs with their caps
DeleteAwon oni iranu! The blame game that has never helped anyone will start. Mtchewww
ReplyDeleteThis people are crazy.
ReplyDeleteWe know it’s the handwork of APC and Buhari’s cousin
Mtchwwww
ReplyDeleteThey should come and blame me too. Their level of incompetency is alarming. We voting them out,we will not be discouraged. Next week, we head back to vote. Nothing stopping us.
ReplyDeleteAs if we don't know who postponed the election.
ReplyDeleteWho influences inec? The ruling party or the opposition?
Bunch of jokers, God will surely disgrace all of you that are bent on ruining this country.
Thank you.
DeleteIs this a joke?when we all know APC and Buhari did this cos they know Atiku is about to win.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jonathan did the same thing, what finally happened?
DeleteThese people are raving mad.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this news is for our naive brothers up north.
So PDP is now fgn. Shame on dullard and dumb buhari and his cohorts. They saw defeat with their korokoro eyes.
ReplyDeleteShame on them and inec for disgracing Nigeria to the outside world and within.
I still pity people who wants to demonstrate
Tee Jay abeg borrow me your hand, make I take slap this Festus keyamo which Kian mumu talk be this.
ReplyDeleteWith all pleasure... What a friends for lolzzz.
DeleteLolz
DeleteHahahahahahahaha Abeg make una leave me😀
DeleteChia,n next week Saturday is my uncle's burial. Which kind thing be this na
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DeleteSo what about people that were stocking their house with food as if their was going to be famine. You needed to see market yesterday, even fuel stations. Hubby kuku filled up gallon because the rush would create artificial scarcity. And now they are postponing, so they want us to experience this again come next week???smh!
ReplyDeleteOdiegwu oh...
DeleteAPC should hide their faces in shame. When will they stop blaming others for their misdeeds.
ReplyDeleteWhy will APC blame PDP for their shit when APC is the ones giving order to INEC.
ReplyDeleteIt's called mind game. They think we are fools.
DeleteBlame game will choke APC one day, they thought we are babies.taaaaa!!!
ReplyDeleteAll that sweet me most most now is another holiday loading... Waiting concern me? If they like let them no do the election at all. Sai BaBa! 4+4...
ReplyDeleteThis is so heartbreaking!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Gov't schools that had instant break because of this election?!
University students that are waiting patiently to go back to school after the election??
Those that traveled just to vote since they said it must be where you registered??
They really don't care about citizens.
which way Naija??!
APC kor,PDP nii
INEC is an independent parastatal. Let's all stop this blame game ( It's PDP fault vs it's APC fault) and still go out to vote whenever they are ready.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Nigeria and lead uu to vote the right candidate.
I think voters should restrategize this one week and vote a young ,fresh candidate.
Exactly
DeleteIf you really think the “I” in INEC stands for Independent then I’m sure you don’t know how Nigeria is being run. We shall know if it’s truly independent if APC and it’s governorship candidate is printed on the ballot paper come February 23rd.
DeleteThis time around I have to travel to East. Buhari must go!
DeleteWhere's ladybug? I jus dey wait for her. Let her come and disgrace herself here.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I like dis apc pple. They know they are the opposition party already because pdp to take over. So apc step into ur opposition seat and be there for a while till we correct this y’all stupid ass poverty.
ReplyDeleteAnd the blame goes on...
ReplyDeleteTeejay oversabi gbagaun master I hear you, did jonathan rig 2015 election? Hell no! Say what you know, you nothing, newspaper stand eavesdropper mtschewww
ReplyDeleteLMFAO... You are better of as a specimen in one of those northern secondary school laboratory.
DeleteI believe them. Because this has turned people against tgem. I always thought the inec chairman was complicit. With the stance on zamfara and rivers. Something serious is going on. OBJ is powerful in naija
ReplyDeleteSo wie immer.....
ReplyDeleteBlame blame.....
chim-oma aka Miss Kapusu
Enter your comment...even if they wan postpone election, that should have been done yesterday now. Now people having their wedding are to postpone again
ReplyDeleteSo APC that's d party in power can allow PDP to give order to INEC to postpone election, and INEC obeyed and they (APC) are okay with it? This is the height of incompetency of this government.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect from a party whose president only occupation before becoming President, was rearing of aturu(cows)?
DeleteLol.... aturu is sheep not cow. It's ehi (cow) Buhari you and your cohorts will have no peace. This country isn't your personal property that you will be messing with people like they're the cows in your village. As long as the God of heaven sits on the throne, Nigeria will be great again. Ndi igbo forming biafra upandan sheepishly following Nnamdi Kanu, better go and collect your Pvc, he won't be there to save you when wahala starts!
DeleteWhen I said hold your PVC then go and pray cos you don't want to know the kinds of deals being made in secret by evil men and women, it was like "This one too dey talk about prayer". Let me tell you people now: this postponement is the least of what they planned. They actually hope that there will be no election, that they can cause enough frustration for some people to say "Let's forget it" and others to start behaving like animals causing anarchy, then the military can return. And that will be the beginning of another thing. Things are much worse than they appear, and this isn't a plan that was conceived a month ago. They've been planning for years. People that say they're going to church today, forget those prosperity prayers. They will not be able to help you if the plans that the cabal behind Buhari, come to pass. Better use that same energy you normally use to pray for prosperity to beg God to have mercy on this land, unveil for us leaders after His heart, and unseat Buhari quickly in whatever way He pleases. And determine to vote, no matter what.
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