INEC, in the early hours of Saturday, February 16, 2019, cited logistics as its reason for postponing the elections.

According to a statement sent to Pulse, the PDP presidential candidate said President Buhari should be blamed.

Atiku said the postponement is part of the Federal Government’s plan to disenfranchise Nigerians.

He also called on his supporters to be patient, peaceful and law-abiding as they go about their business.

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Read the full statement below:

As you know, the Independent National Electoral Commission has announced a postponement of the elections until 23 February and 9 March respectively.

The Buhari administration has had more than enough time and money to prepare for these elections and the Nigerian people were poised and ready to perform their civic responsibility by voting in the elections earlier scheduled for Saturday, 16 February, 2019. 

This postponement is obviously a case of the hand of Esau but the voice of Jacob. By instigating this postponement, the Buhari administration hopes to disenfranchise the Nigerian electorate in order to ensure that turn out is low on the rescheduled date. Nigerians must frustrate their plans by coming out in even greater numbers on Saturday, 23 February and Saturday, 9 March respectively.

Knowing that the Nigerian people are determined to reject them, they are desperate and will do anything in their power to avoid their rejection by the Nigerian people. 

Their plan is to provoke the public, hoping for a negative reaction, and then use that as an excuse for further anti-democratic acts.

As such, I call on all Nigerians to be patient. We have tolerated the maladministration of this government for four years. We can extend our tolerance a few more days and give them our verdict via our votes.

Maintain the peace and be law abiding. Do not react to this provocation with anger, violence or any action that might be exploited by those who do not want this election to hold. Remain calm. We will overcome this. You can postpone an election, but you cannot postpone destiny.

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Please come out to vote on Saturday, 23 February and Saturday, 9 March respectively. Frustrate those who do not want this election to hold by coming out in very large numbers. That is the best antidote to their plans. 

May God bless you and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

APC condemns postponement

The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign council has also condemned the postponement of the elections.

The presidential and national assembly elections will now hold on February 23, 2019 instead of February 16, 2019.

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Onnoghen, who has been accused of failing to declare his assets and operating several domiciliary bank accounts, will be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Monday, January 14, 2019.

According to The Cable, problem started for the CJN when a group known as the Anti-Corruption and Research Based Data Initiative (ARDI) wrote a petition against him.

Reacting to the report, Atiku said Nigerians will resist any attempt to silence the judiciary.

The PDP presidential candidate also accused President Buhari of planning to get a new CJN who will do his bidding.

Atiku revealed that Dennis Aghanya, the Executive Secretary of the ARDI, the group that wrote the petition against Onnoghen, was the spokesman of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buhari’s former party before the merger that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The presidential candidate said that there will be an epic battle if Buhari and the APC succeed in removing Onnoghen.

Atiku also faulted the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) for reportedly transferring the CJN’s case to the CCT, adding that the power to punish erring judicial officers rests on the National Judicial Council (NJC).

“The proper procedure would have been for the petition to be referred to the JSC of which Onnoghen is the Chairman, but he would have to excuse himself from the process. If found guilty, he could be asked to vacate his office as CJN, in addition to other punishments,” he added.

According to Daily Post, Atiku said “We have just been made aware of the plot by President Muhammadu Buhari the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sack Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen using flimsy assets declaration issues as a pretext. We are aware that there are plans to arraign Justice Onnoghen before the Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar led- Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday, January, 14, 2019. The charge against Onnoghen, we understand has already been filed and served on him last Friday at his official residence in Abuja preparatory to his appearance at the Tribunal.

”But we warn that despite the clandestine meetings in the highest echelon of the APC and also involving some top officials of the federal government which include the Code of Conduct Tribunal, neither Buhari nor the APC can re-write the Nigerian Constitution just because of its impending defeat at the February 16, presidential election. Heavens did not fall when PDP lost to the APC in 2015. And heavens will not fall now that the APC is sure to lose to the PDP, seeing that the APC’s plan to rig in the forthcoming elections will not pull through.

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