2019: Abdulsalami, Kukah, Okoh storm INEC

The General Abdulsalami Abubakar led Peace Committee, Tuesday, met with the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on the forthcoming 2019 general elections in Abuja.

The former Head of State was accompanied to the meeting by Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese; former Vice-President Ebitu Ukiwe and Nicholas Okoh, Anglican bishop.

The meeting was aimed at discussing with the INEC chairman on ways and democratic processes to adopt, to make the forthcoming 2019 presidential election a successful one.

Abdulsalami also used the opportunity to call on politicians to shun violence and anything that would disrupt the forthcoming elections.

He said after the meeting: “We are all aware that we are approaching the 2019 election and already you are very much aware how the polity is being heated as a result of which we have decided to step our action in ensuring that there is peace in the country and the politicians play by the rule of the game and also the security agencies and the INEC play their role accordingly.

“This morning we have interacted with the INEC chairman and his staff and also the security agencies here who have got one role or the other to perform in this election.

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“All in all, we have had a briefing and later this afternoon we are going to meet the political parties and the chairmen of the 91 registered political parties in furtherance of ensuring that peace continues. We are going to listen to them, hear their complaints and also appeal to them to make sure that politics is played without bitterness.

“As you are very much aware if there is no peace in any country there would be no country at all. So this is the essence of this meeting to ensure that we are all on the same wave length.”

 

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