Former Governor of old Kaduna State and leader of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa has said that another shift in polls will mean that the present government wants to remain in power.
Musa while speaking after a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Peoples Redemption Party on Saturday in Kaduna said “If election is shifted again, the majority of Nigerians will oppose it. They will demonstrate against it.
“Nigerians will come out massively to oppose the action because another shift will not be in their interest. Another shift will mean that the government wants to remain in power.
“If a six-week delay is the sacrifice which Nigerians had to make to ensure that every registered voter was given an opportunity to exercise (or not to exercise) their constitutional right to vote, so be it.
“We will not tolerate another shift because we are not any body’s slave. We are free people, and this country is free, this country belongs to all of us, it does not belong to a clique.
“Continuation of Boko Haram activities is not an excuse to shift election again because Boko Haram is occupying less than 14 per cent of Nigeria. We can tolerate this. We should conduct election in spite of the insurgency. But Nigerians cannot tolerate anymore shifting of election date.”
i totally agree with what he has said we dont want the polls to be shifted. it would be wrong for the government to say it wants to shift the poll cos of security reasons. its time for us to take charge of our own.