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BALLOT SNATCHERS: ‘Law-abiding’ Buhari never issued any ‘shoot on sight’ order- Tinubu

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The National leader of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) and the co-chair of the party’s presidential campaign council, Bola Tinubu, has shared his perspective on the threat issued to ballot box snatchers by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Tinubu said, “Shoot on sight are not his words; he is a law-abiding person and he understands categorically and clearly what the rule of law is and the lives of individual citizens, he knows that he is in that office to protect.

“Now, let me say this: he has been fighting Boko Haram, kidnappers and all that before this election, did you hear him asking them to be shot and executed summarily?”

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Tinubu also spoke about the party’s next plans following the postponement of the elections.

He insisted that the campaign of the party would continue while INEC is not bound by law to resist it.

Tinubu who spoke to journalists after the caucus meeting of the party held at its national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, maintained that the electoral law mandated political parties to stop campaigns twenty four hours prior to the election.

He argued that the postponement of the election till February 23 indicated that political parties could hold campaign before the “actual election.”

He said, “By law we should continue to energise our people. It depends on our resources. Because the Electoral Act allows us to continue to campaign and ask us to stop campaigning only 24 hours before the actual election. And once INEC changed the election date to Feb. 23, they have given us the opening to campaign and energise our people.

“If you have a garden and you don’t nourish it with water, the grass will remain dormant. We don’t want our party to remain dormant.

While he remained undoubtful of the credibility of the postponed election, the former Lagos State governor said only INEC could convert the situation to better position itself to deliver a credible election or choose otherwise

He noted, “It depends on how it is handled and the new process. How the process is managed? You can convert what appears a crisis, a situation of adversity to an opportunity and progress.

“The INEC, under the law, is empowered to postpone, cancel and do whatever is necessary to ensure free and fair election. No party other INEC has this power. We can express our anger and disappointment, but no party can reverse what has been done. So, we are ready for Feb. 23. Years

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