2019: No room for rigging, Atiku tells Buhari

                               

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday said there would be no room for rigging in the February 16 presidential election.

Atiku, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, warned that anyone planning to rig the election might as well be toying with the very foundation of the nation’s democracy.

He advised the Independent National Electoral Commission, the military and the police not to allow themselves to be used by those interested in turning Nigeria’s democracy on its head.

Atiku said world powers had agreed to re-route their latest and most technologically sophisticated spy satellites. Including the NAOL-47, to provide comprehensive coverage over Nigeria on February16 for the presidential election.

“The photographs these satellites will deliver cannot only show someone reading a newspaper, but also which newspaper they are reading,” the former vice president said.

He said the cabal in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government knew this and was unhappy with the statements from the US, the UK and the European Union on the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.

“Over 100 million Nigerians cannot afford even one decent meal a day, yet their president is seeking re-election. The world powers as well as Nigerians also have intelligence that Buhari will decisively lose the elections since the people are angry because they are hungry and have no jobs.  There is no level of rigging that this vile government could ever do to overturn the millions of Nigerians who will turn up at the polls to vote him out.

“We ask our dearest young population who got a job under Buhari in the last 4 years, to vote for Buhari.  But all those who lost their jobs and whose relations lost their jobs and businesses to his maladministration to please come out in large numbers to elect Atiku Abubabar who is a harbinger of job creation! “ the statement said .