The camp of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not mean well for Nigeria. This is in reaction to an alleged plot to postpone 2023 election.
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‘Why is the ruling APC afraid of going to the polls now when other political parties, including INEC, said that they are ready for the exercise?”
A spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala wondered as he tackled the APC over plots to shift the 2023 election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced that the Presidential and National Assembly elections would hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023, while the Governorship and State Assembly elections are set to hold on Saturday, March 11, 2023.
The Plot
However, an earlier report revealed that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State is spearheading a plot to adjust the election timetable by four weeks.
The source who disclosed the move by the APC and El-Rufai said it may be due to the protests and hardship rocking the county over the naira and fuel scarcity. The situation has forced some candidates and parties to suspend their campaigns.
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“The APC is seeking a postponement of the election by four weeks, and the move is led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
“I think it has to do with the current chaos being experienced as a result of the naira and fuel scarcity,” the source said.
PDP Reacts
Reacting to the development, a spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said APC’s plot to postpone 2023 election indicates that they do not mean well for Nigeria.
According to him, those pushing to reschedule the election have noticed that the naira redesign policy has put them in a tight corner. He claims it was a ploy to buy time to wriggle their way through.
Bwala said: “All those who are thinking of postponing the election never mean well for Nigeria, and they never mean well for our democracy.
“They have noticed that the naira redesign policy has put them in a tight corner, and they needed to buy time to wriggle their way through.
“They went to court to challenge the policy, and the 10 days extension given by the president is coming to an end.
“When they went to court, the 10 days granted to them before the hearing of that case would have been over.
“With that, their matter will become academic.
“So, they are now seeking to extend the election by four weeks so that within this period, they will go and get ‘black market’ order from anywhere that will now say that their case is suspended”.
Old Notes For Vote Buying
He claimed that ‘it is only the APC that is fighting for an extension of the naira policy’ because, allegedly, they have stashed a large amount of the old naira notes they want to use for vote buying.
The PDP chieftain said: “If you look at it from all points of view, you will notice that anybody that is seeking postponement of the election at this critical time of our national existence doesn’t mean well for our nation.
“INEC said they are ready for the election, the Federal Government said they are ready, political parties also said they are ready, but only one political party keeps saying they are not ready and are demanding for postponement.
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“That party happens to be the governing party that should be the first to be ready for the elections.
“Also, it is only that political party that is fighting for an extension of the naira policy because allegedly, they have stashed a large amount of the old naira notes and they want to use it for vote buying.
“However, this policy will not permit them to do that. They are suffering from anthropophobia which is the fear of the people and society.
“APC is afraid of voter backlash that the people are going to vote them out”.
