Pastor Tunde Bakare calls for
postponment of polls by six months
Convener
of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare has called for the
postponement of the 2015 general elections by six months to the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, review the election timetable as well as
the imminent disenfranchisement of Nigerians following its inability to
distribute the Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVC.
He spoke
in Lagos yesterday in his State of the Nation’s address with the theme, The
Gathering Storm and Avoidable Shipwreck: How to Avoid Catastrophic Euroclydon, at
his church, the Latter Rain Assembly.
Warning
of impending dangers for the country if the warning signals were ignored,
Bakare said the only way to avert the storm was to urgently address some
fundamental flaws in the polity.
“I must
state that the proposal for suspension of elections is not with a view to
giving the president an avenue for undue tenure elongation but for the purpose
of building a coalition that will bring lasting solutions to our problems.
“I have
clearly painted a picture of where we are, a disaster is ahead of us. If the
northerner emerges as winner, whether he has won that election fair and square
or not, people will allege rigging. If Jonathan wins the election, fair and
square, they will allege that hie used his power of incumbency to rig the
election.
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