The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, on Saturday described the postponement of the 2019 general elections as a familiar nightmare.
He condemned the postponement of the presidential and National Assembly polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission, describing it as a travesty.
According to him, the decision meant that President Muhammdau Buhari’s All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, “are both two sides of the same bad coin.”
The AAC candidate in a statement by the Director-General of Sowore 2019 Campaign Organisation, Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi, asked his supporters and party members to “stay the course, re-energise their engagements in their communities, and help to ensure an even bigger turnout for freedom next week.”
He said, “Nigerians awoke to a familiar nightmare – the sudden cancellation of elections that both the government and its electoral agencies had four years to prepare for.
“The failure to successfully hold elections whose dates were known four years in advance speaks to the complete ineptitude and lack of transparency of the Buhari regime.
“We have seen this script before. In 2011 and 2015, our electoral process was similarly thrown into chaos by last-minute shifts in the election dates under the (Goodluck) Jonathan-led PDP government.
“By repeating the same failures, Buhari’s APC government has now demonstrated to Nigerians that there is no difference in values between itself and the former PDP administration.
“This is yet another example of the fact that the two establishment parties, APC and PDP, are both two sides of the same bad coin.
“Nigerians must not become numb to this travesty. No one would tolerate such ineptitude in their own personal affairs.
“Millions of Nigerians travelled to ensure that they were in place to participate in the elections. Businesses and commercial activities have been disrupted, and the sacrifices of tens of millions of Nigerians who had readied themselves to go to the polls and effect a positive change in the trajectory of the nation has been dashed – albeit temporarily.
“The complicity of Buhari’s APC government in this last-minute shift in the electoral process is clear for all to see. If this administration had no hand in this callous postponement, their condemnation would have been swift and their denunciation of INEC’s actions would have been screamed from every mountain top.
“The APC was quick to denounce similar actions taken by the Jonathan-led PDP administration in 2015. Their silence on this occasion is deafening.
“The AAC, our presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and the Nigerian people are not deterred.
“Positive change and true transformation are coming to Nigeria, and whether it happens on the 16th or on the 23rd of February, it will happen.
“We ask all of our supporters and party members to stay the course, re-energise their engagements in their communities, and help to ensure an even bigger turnout for freedom next week.”
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