By Gabriel Okoro, Abuja
Following the postponement of the 2019 general elections across the country by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, have urged Nigerians to remain resolute and to cast their votes on Saturday February the 23rd.
They gave the advice in separate interviews during a media briefing in Abuja on why the Elections were postponed by INEC.
The PDP representative, Osita Chidioka while urging Nigerians not to protest on the street following the Elections postponement said the party will rather want a constructive dialogue with INEC.
Chidioka said that PDP want to ensure that the sensitive materials that were brought out by INEC for the Elections were verified by a third party that they have not been tampered with.
He said his party is also concerned about a contractor of INEC who is also a contestant in the Election.
His words: “we want to ensure that that contractor and the work done by his company is also oversighted by a third party to be sure that they have not done anything to undermine the integrity of the electoral process.”
On his part, national chairman of the APC,. Adams Oshiomhole said they will have to go back to renew their campaign so that people will not think it is all over.
Oshiomhole said his party will not give up despite the postponement adding that they are determined to get Nigerians to remain resolute that their right to vote would be exercised and at the end, there will be peaceful Elections.
According to him, I want to appeal to people that the way Nigerians have reacted to this, painful as it is(Elections postponement), shows that we are basically peaceful, there could have been some incidence here and there.
“So I believe that come Saturday it will be peaceful and we ask all Nigerians to come out and vote”, he said.