Prof. Itse Sagay SAN, Chairman of
the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, has insisted
that the military’s involvement in the just-concluded Rivers State elections
saved people of the state from bloodbath.
Sagay stated this while
rubbishing claim by Buba Galadima, spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, on the militarization of the recent
elections.
Dismissing Galadima’s claim,
Sagay stressed that the conduct of elections in Rivers State would have been
difficult if not for the involvement of the military.
Speaking with Vanguard, Sagay
said: “Sincerely, I don’t seem to understand what befell Buba Galadima at his
old age that made him to continually talk recklessly and becoming
irresponsible. You know it is a shame that he has become totally irresponsible
and indiscipline in his language. It is very sad. I don’t know what he lost or
didn’t get in APC that affected him mentally that he is talking childishly and
embarrassingly.
“What Galadima said is pure
nonsense. Militarisation of the election, was it the military that was voting?
The military didn’t stop anybody from going to vote. So what does he mean by
militarisation? I wish he could go to Rivers State to vote without the
military, and see if he would come back alive.
“The military saved us from
bloodshed, especially in Rivers and Akwa-Ibom where no election has ever been
free. Rivers particularly, they always write results. In 2015, Governor Nysome Wike’s
result was just written by hand.
“The card reader read total votes
cast as 229,000, and Wike claimed to have 1.2 million votes. There has never
been an election in that place and if the military had not been involved, there
would be no election. So, without the military in many parts of this country
like Zamfara and most parts of the North-East and volatile areas, there would
be no election.
“Let us be grateful to the
military and thank them because if we annoy them and they withdraw, the
bloodshed in our elections will cause a civil war. So, let Galadima stop
talking nonsense, let him respect himself, withdraw from the public and just
disappear.”
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