The National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu on Monday refuted the statement
credited to President Muhammadu Buhari
where he threatened that snatchers of
ballot boxes will pay with their lives.
Tinubu, speaking with journalists in Abuja
at the end of the APC caucus meeting said
that the President was misinterpreted.
He said that the President at the meeting
only reinforced that those involved in ballot
box snatching will be doing it at the risk of
their life.
According to him, “I was in that meeting;
the president was just reinforcing the fact
that if you are out there snatching ballot
boxes, and causing destructions, you are at
risk of your own life. Whatever happens to
you; no president will give an order that his
own citizens should be shot summarily, No!
No, its okay, emotions are running high
these days. Any individual including myself
can be misinterpreted.
“These are not his words; he is a law
abiding person and he understands
categorically and clearly what rule of law is
and the lives of individual citizens that he
is in that office to protect. Now, let me run
this; he has been fighting Book Haram,
kidnappers and all these before this
election, did you hear him asking them to
be shot and executed summarily?â€
“By law we should continue to energise our
people; it depends on our resources.
Because the Electoral Act allows us to do
that; and ask led us to stop campaigning
only 24 hours before the actual election.
And once you changed the date to Feb. 23,
you have given us the opening to campaign
and energise.
“If you a garden and you don’t nourish with
water, the grass will remain dormant; we
don’t want our party to remain dormant.
“This is ability of leadership to convert
adversity to opportunity and prosperity and
that’s it; that’s what we must do.â€
Source:
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election-tinubu-defends-buhari-death-threat-
ballot-box-snatchers/
