Nigeria’s ex-Military Head of State Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), has said that there will be no interim government in Nigeria.
Mr. Abubakar, who is also the head of the Peace Committee, told journalists during a press conference that President Goodluck Jonathan will keep his promise and polls will hold as planned.
Former head of state said: ”We have been meeting to review where we stopped at the last meeting. We are aware that the election dates have been shifted. There have been a lot of rumours going around the country, whether there are plans to form an interim government.
”We have heard from the president that election will hold in March. He has also said that there are no plans to have an interim government. We are appealing to Nigerians to focus their minds on exercising their rights on election day.
”During the meeting here we were fortunate to have the chairman of APC and representative of the PDP chairman. We are appealing to our youths to ensure that they are not used as thugs during the elections.
”It is always the children of the poor that are used during the elections. We appeal to party leaders to tell their supporters and candidates to be law-abiding. We must ensure that the peace we have had so far is sustained.
”We are going to have a meeting with the chairman of INEC to ascertain what has been done regarding their preparedness. We also discussed that during our meeting. We will ask INEC where they are currently. The committee like every Nigerian is not happy with the violence and what happened in Rivers state. We are following the issue. Even if I give you a guarantee that there will be peace, I cannot dictate what you will do when you leave here. Nigerians must ensure we maintain peace.”
According to Vanguard, the participants of the meeting were also PDP Deputy National Legal Adviser, Alhaji Bashir Maidugu, Presidential Adviser on Inter-party Affairs,Chief Ben Obi, the Chairman of Interparty Advisory Council,Dr Tanko Yunisa among other religion leaders.
A month ago the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, of plotting to form an interim government.
Meanwhile Nigerian army rejected any knowledge of such a plan.
In his turn the opposition party blamed PDP for beginning a secret campaign, pushing emirs and other opinion leaders to admit an interim government from May 29.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/388728-abdusalami-abubakar-says-president-jonathan-will-keep-his-promise.html
Mr. Abubakar, who is also the head of the Peace Committee, told journalists during a press conference that President Goodluck Jonathan will keep his promise and polls will hold as planned.
Former head of state said: ”We have been meeting to review where we stopped at the last meeting. We are aware that the election dates have been shifted. There have been a lot of rumours going around the country, whether there are plans to form an interim government.
”We have heard from the president that election will hold in March. He has also said that there are no plans to have an interim government. We are appealing to Nigerians to focus their minds on exercising their rights on election day.
”During the meeting here we were fortunate to have the chairman of APC and representative of the PDP chairman. We are appealing to our youths to ensure that they are not used as thugs during the elections.
”It is always the children of the poor that are used during the elections. We appeal to party leaders to tell their supporters and candidates to be law-abiding. We must ensure that the peace we have had so far is sustained.
”We are going to have a meeting with the chairman of INEC to ascertain what has been done regarding their preparedness. We also discussed that during our meeting. We will ask INEC where they are currently. The committee like every Nigerian is not happy with the violence and what happened in Rivers state. We are following the issue. Even if I give you a guarantee that there will be peace, I cannot dictate what you will do when you leave here. Nigerians must ensure we maintain peace.”
According to Vanguard, the participants of the meeting were also PDP Deputy National Legal Adviser, Alhaji Bashir Maidugu, Presidential Adviser on Inter-party Affairs,Chief Ben Obi, the Chairman of Interparty Advisory Council,Dr Tanko Yunisa among other religion leaders.
A month ago the Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan accused ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, of plotting to form an interim government.
Meanwhile Nigerian army rejected any knowledge of such a plan.
In his turn the opposition party blamed PDP for beginning a secret campaign, pushing emirs and other opinion leaders to admit an interim government from May 29.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/388728-abdusalami-abubakar-says-president-jonathan-will-keep-his-promise.html
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