ABUJA – FORMER National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and now a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Audu Ogbeh has raised the alarm that with the shift in the dates of the Presidential and general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 respectively by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, it was an indication that there would be no polls in Nigeria before the traditional handing over date of May 29.
According to Ogbeh, if the elections hold, the six-week extension period was for the ruling PDP to carry out what he termed, a high level theatrical manipulations, alleging that that the government was planning to put in place an interim National Government.
In a statement he personally signed and made available to Journalists in Abuja Tuesday, Chief Ogbeh said with the unfolding political scenario, Nigeria is now the world’s laughing stock as danger looms ahead.
According to Chief Ogbeh, statements credited to the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe further buttressed the rumoured Interim National Government being allegedly nursed by the federal government.
The APC Chieftain also accused politicians of becoming the most destructive elements of the nation’s judiciary, warning that there will never be stable democracy in Nigeria if elections remain decided more by the courts than by the electorate.
Chief Ogbeh said, “Ordinarily, the simple change within the constitutional time table allowed should cause no one any anxiety. However, the current situation does portend serious dangers ahead both for the Nigerian state and the tragic political and social circumstances of our people. Many have tried to argue that after all, the last three elections were held in April. What they seem to conveniently forget is that after Yar’adua’s election, he himself informed the world that his election was less than clean and that the electoral process needed reform.
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