Former military Head of State Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar said yesterday that it will be near impossible to postpone the general elections again.
His reason: President Goodluck Jonathan came out to promise the citizenry that the elections would hold as scheduled and added that May 29 hand-over date remain sacrosanct.
Gen. Abubakar, who was in Kano to commission the Kano Institute of Information Technology, spoke with reporters briefly at the Senate Building of North-West University.
He said: “We should give our president a benefit of doubt… President Goodluck Jonathan has spoken to the press in a media chat and he gave his word that the election will hold as scheduled. So, let us give him a benefit of doubt. Being our president, we should accept what he has said.
“Now, my appeal again to Nigerians and everybody- please, let us give peace a chance before, on election day and after the election. And I do hope that the electoral officials, the politicians will allow a free and fair election.”
On what transpired during the meeting between him, President Jonathan and former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, he simply said: “That is a private matter between me and Mr. President.”
He praised Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso for the projects he executed in Kano.
“Really, Governor Kwankwaso deserves commendation. From what I have seen, certainly whoever that is going to follow after him has got a precedent to contend with,” he said.
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