President Muhammadu Buhari criticised over the spate of killings in parts of the country
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has raised the alarm that Nigerians might not be allowed to vote at the 2019 elections.
This was in reaction to the suspension of the bye-election in Rivers State over the weekend.
In a statement, Fayose said the suspension is “another sad reality that votes of Nigerians will not be allowed to count at the 2019 election as the elections will be held at gun-point to achieve predetermined results.”
As stated by him, “it is worrisome that the same way they invaded Ekiti State with over 50,000 armed security personnel last month and laid siege on the State for a whole week was how they invaded Rivers State yesterday with men of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) that aided APC thugs to snatch election materials, including card readers and abduct INEC officials.
“Even INEC could not but point it out in its press statement announcing suspension of the election that miscreants and hoodlums accompanied by heavily armed security personnel in uniform stormed polling units, destroying and carting away electoral materials as well as holding electoral officers hostage.
“We thought that we have gone past this era of manipulated electoral process after the 2015 general elections, which brought the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari to power, the country has been taken back to the Stone Age by merging APC with INEC, police, military and other security agencies.”
In addition, he recalled that he “warned Nigerians in 2015 and when this reign of tyranny started, I kept warning.
“Now; free, fair and credible election is dead in Nigeria and election has become what the ruling party must ‘win’ at gun-point.”