Yakubu Busari
The Secretary of All Progressive Congress, APC, Barr.Bashir Musan-sati has decried the noncompliance of PDP to the electoral act as worrisome by calling on state government, INEC to deploy sensitive materials in time to prevent unnecessary delay in the voting exercise.
He commended the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, for lifting campaign after the Saturday postponement of Presidential election by appealing to supporters of APC to prepare vote to come out and vote integrity.
Speaking to some session of the media at his Residence in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau ,Musan-sati expressed confidence in victory come this weekend.
He said, “I was highly disappointed with the issue of INEC postponing the election but it was a blessing to us in Plateau State in disguise because of what we witness the opposition PDP paraded over 30 lawyers which is a bridge of the country electoral act “.
Barr Bashir explained that the INEC have done what is highly patriotic is better to stop and take correction and prevent the breakdown of law and order rather than go ahead, we see so many things ,when I was at the CBN to collect, PDP were there with many lawyers when security ask them to leave they refuse just to cause problem.
According to him, they went on checking everything especially the materials they almost took position then I raised alarm and in swept reaction the deputy chairman of IPAD quickly ask them to live but they were still hanging around ,in case this election continue there should be litigation to be contain with.
Bashir Musan-sati reiterated that the challenges of Saturday was due to not availability of Plateau Central and Northern Senatorial election ballot papers which will have bring about kiosk and 8000 Presidential election materials was said to have been missing from Langtang North LGA.
He stressed that ,we have to be better prepare for the forthcoming elections, this is completely out of the guidelines of INEC, campaign should be stop 24 hours before election because section 9 subsection I of the electoral act so now we have enough time to embark on Campaign.
Bashir noted that the ballot papers arrived polling units successfully but caution against plan to manipulate the results by PDP which they have done in Abia ,we can’t allow them here in Plateau State to rig .
We will insist that each local governments should ask to know the number of ballot papers send to them with a clear mandate to mindful of checking the agents card.
