ballot box snatching or disturbance of the electoral processes during the
general elections risk his or her life.
Without mincing words, Buhari said those who influence ballot box snatch
may find out it is their “last unlawful action”.
The President said this in Abuja on Monday at a meeting of the national
caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), following the one-week
postponement of the elctions announced on Saturday.
“Anybody who decides to snatch ballot boxes or lead thugs to disturb, it
may be that [this will be] the last unlawful action you will take,” Buhari
said.
“I rarely give the military and the police [the power] to be ruthless. We
are not going be blamed but we won’t rig election. I want Nigerians to be
respected; let them vote whoever they want across the parties. I’m not
afraid of it.
“The whole 36 states in Nigeria, I went round. I think I have got enough
support across the country to look after me. So I’m going to warn anybody
who thinks he has enough influence in his locality to lead a body of thugs
to snatch boxes or to disturb the voting system, he will do it at the
expense of his own life.”