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Threat to deal with ballot box snatchers, recipe for mayhem –Jolayemi

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The Coordinator of Friends of Atiku Professionals, FOAP, Moses Jolayemi, has described the threat by President Muhammadu Buhari to deal ruthlessly with ballot box snatchers during the rescheduled election as a recipe for mayhem.

This is as he called on the international community to be prepared to rescue Nigeria from an impending mayhem.

In a statement made available to journalists, Jolayemi called the attention of Nigerians, civil society organisations, religious leaders and the world at large to the televised part of the APC caucus meeting held in Abuja.

He said the statement by the president confirmed his penchant for violence and mass killing.

Buhari, warning people against causing any disturbances during the elections said that whoever engaged in such act “will pay with their lives”.

This, to say the least, according to Jolayemi, was scary and ominous of what the president and the APC planned to unleash on the Nigerian electorate “if they are unable to pull through with their plans to rig the elections.”

It is unexpected that a responsible leader would issue such a threat having revealed that he had already instructed security agencies to be “ruthless” in dealing with those who work against the interest of the party.

Jolayemi said those who thought they were popular or strong in their localities and tried to foment trouble during the elections would be doing “their last ignoble act” on earth.

Buhari’s position, he said, was consistent with that of the chairman of  his party, Mr. Adams Oshiomole, who he said claimed that all those working against their party’s interest would be put to shame.

His words: “Statements by the party’s leadership resonate very well with an earlier threat issued by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, that foreign nationals who interfere in Nigeria’s election would be killed and sent back to their countries as body bags.

“We strongly believe that the President has given the security agents especially the trigger happy elements free hands to shed the blood of Nigerians. What we expect of responsible leaders is that those caught disrupting the electoral process would be made to face the wrath of the law, not directing armed personnel of government to open fire on their fellow citizens. This is another attempt by the President and his bunch of desperadoes who are currently at their wits end on how to save their sinking ship.

“It is clear even to toddlers that the Buhari government has failed woefully on all fronts and Nigerians are set to show them the way out with their votes. The belief of most Nigerians is that the postponement of the  elections was not without the knowledge and consent of the ruling party. What the party is trying to do is a face-saving gimmick to give an impression of neutrality and non-interference in the affairs of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“They hold that the whole thing is a charade. For instance, Buhari was reported to have gone to his polling unit to vote before he was told that the election had been postponed. But while addressing his party leaders yesterday, Buhari said he was informed of the postponement at about 5 a.m., two and half hours after the eerie announcement by INEC. Who then is fooling who?

“Another school of thought holds that since the President and his co-travellers would do just anything to remain in power, terrorising and impoverishing the nation as they have done in the last almost four years, it is not unlikely that the threat being issued by both the President and the APC chairman was to inject fears in the INEC chairman as well as other Resident Electoral Commissioners across the 36 states of the Federation in order to ensure that electoral body does the bidding of the APC.

“President Buhari and his party should know that the world is watching and Nigerians are no longer willing to allow a small clique of power mongers to continue holding the nation by the jugular while hunger, poverty and insecurity envelope the nation.”

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