{"id":65555,"date":"2019-03-17T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=65555"},"modified":"2019-03-17T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T17:52:19","slug":"supplementary-election-i-wont-change-election-results-for-anyone-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/uncategorized\/supplementary-election-i-wont-change-election-results-for-anyone-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTION: I Won\u2019t Change Election Results For Anyone-Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m4831692877778203319\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">President Mohammadu Buhari has vowed not to interfere with the upcoming<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">supplementary elections, vowing not to alter election results for any<br \/>\ncandidate.Buhari urged those involved in the supplementary elections to go to the<br \/>\nelectorates and seek for supports.<\/p>\n<p>The President was reacting following insinuation that he may have been<br \/>\ntrying to arm-twist the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,<br \/>\nto help second term seeking Governors of the All Progressive Congress,<br \/>\nAPC, who are having hard times securing reelection.<\/p>\n<p>INEC had ordered for supplementary elections in Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa,<br \/>\nPlateau and Bauchi states where the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP appears<br \/>\nto have been leading. The electoral body also suspended voting in Rivers<br \/>\nstate citing violence.<\/p>\n<p>But a statement signed by Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the<br \/>\npresident has no interest in helping to change results or favor any<br \/>\ncandidate.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Presidency has cautioned against a lot of the hate spewing,<br \/>\nincitement to violence and the polarizing statements by so-called<br \/>\npolitical leaders as a number of states brace up for supplementary<br \/>\nelections prescribed by the National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Presidency also rejects unfair and ridiculous criticisms of President<br \/>\nMuhammadu Buhari&#8217;s apparent disinterest in the upcoming elections in some<br \/>\nstates by party members who wrongfully assume that the President will<br \/>\nabuse power by changing results to favour them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPast Presidents of Nigeria were known to interfere in inconclusive<br \/>\nelections, and that is why party members appear to be upset that the same<br \/>\nthing is not happening now, but President Buhari is a different kind of<br \/>\nleader. He swore to defend the constitution and will not veer off from<br \/>\nthat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constitution of Nigeria gives the President no such powers. It is<br \/>\nunfair and ridiculous to criticise President Buhari for not going against<br \/>\nthe constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParty members in states where there will be supplementary elections then<br \/>\nneed to be reminded that they need to work hard to earn their people&#8217;s<br \/>\nvotes, rather than expect President Buhari to manipulate INEC in their<br \/>\nfavour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly, while members of the ruling APC party were criticising the<br \/>\nPresident for not interfering on their behalf, members of the opposition<br \/>\nwere condemning the President based on their assumptions that he would<br \/>\ndefinitely interfere, as many in the opposition did while in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder President Buhari, INEC had been and will be completely independent<br \/>\nthroughout the elections, free from any interference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari is a man of conviction, and the manipulation of election<br \/>\nresults goes against everything he stands for INEC is completely in<br \/>\ncharge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mohammadu Buhari has vowed not to interfere with the upcoming supplementary elections, vowing not to alter election results for any candidate.Buhari urged those involved in the supplementary elections to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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