The Arewa Consultative Forum,
ACF, has reacted over the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s accusation that
President Muhammadu Buhari was plotting to rig election, like the late Bead of
State, Sani Abacha.
Rubbishing Obasanjo’s claim, ACF
said most Nigerians were not aware of such because Abacha never conducted
elections.
The group challenged Obasanjo to
behave like a statesman and desist from running down democratic institutions.
In a statement, the National
Secretary of the ACF, Anthony Sani said Obasanjo should encourage democratic
institutions to perform better.
“If that is what he Obasanjo
said, I would submit that most Nigerians were not aware since Abacha never
conducted any elections before he died.
“And given the fact that we do
not know the alleged plans by the present regime to rig the elections, it would
be wrong for any group to be worried.
“This is because any worry would
amount to vote of no confidence on our democratic institutions like INEC which
has assured the nation of the commission’s readiness to conduct free and fair
elections by improving on the performance recorded in the previous elections in
2015.
“Even though the former president
is fully partisan and may go any length to cast aspersions on the ruling party
and the democratic institutions under her watch, it would be worthy of him to
note that he cannot plough off his status as a statesman who is expected to
help build and strengthen our democratic institutions for performance, and not
to run them down without suggestions on how best to improve them”.
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