Below
is the APC response to today’s announcement that the election will be
postponed from February 14th to March 28th for the presidential and
national assembly elections. The APC statement which appealed for calm
from Nigerians was signed by the national chairman of the party, Chief
John Odigie-Oyegun.
Statement:
The All Progressives Congress, APC has just heard over the news media
that The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided
to postpone the elections by six weeks on the strength of a letter by
the security chiefs that they cannot provide security for the elections
nationwide because of the commitment of its resources to fight
insurgency in the north eastern part of the country.
This is clearly a major setback for Nigerian democracy, and our Party
is meeting in emergency session to study its implications and will
inform Nigerians of its decisions in the next few days.
In the meantime though what has happened is highly provocative, I
strongly appeal to all Nigerians to remain calm and desist from violence
and any activity which will compound this unfortunate development. We
must not fall into this obvious trap.
Change we must. They can only delay it; No one can stop it. I want to
assure all Nigerians that the All Progressives Congress will not
abandon its commitment to change and will sustain the struggle to
establish a new Nigeria.
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