Oby Ezekwesili, presidential
candidate, Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has warned against
thuggery, military intimidation and harassment of voters in the 2019 elections.
Speaking on Friday at a forum on
Violence Free Elections, Ezekwesili said the absence of thuggery and military
intimidation are part of the conditions that would guarantee a violence-free
poll.
The forum was organised by
Presidential Summit Centre in collaboration with Forum of Presidential
Candidates towards a peaceful conduct of elections.
Ezekwesili urged other
presidential candidates to believe in the peace accord signed and work towards
achieving it.
”You know there is a peace
accord. In our own case, we signed, not because it is a ceremony but because we
believe in it,” she said.
She urged President Muhammadu
Buhari to listen to the court of public opinion and address lingering electoral
issues ahead of the poll.
Ezekwesili called on the
president to sign the amended 2018 electoral bill into law.
She urged the national assembly
to ensure the people have rules that would enable the country to have electoral
integrity.
“We also need to have the rules
of the game as far as the military structures are concerned to ensure that they
are not in any way complicit in election malpractice,” she said.
“We should therefore come
together to agree on the rules of the game as far as the use of military is
concerned.
”We don’t want a situation where
the military will carry out a coup from the back door. None of us will accept
that.”
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