Elections’ shift, one of your jokers - APC to Jonathan

The postponement of the February 14 presidential election to March 28 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has been described as one of President Goodluck Jonathan’s jokers to suppress the influence of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

But the move by the Presidency will not deter the opposition party from gaining victory in the March and April elections.

Speaking with The Nation on Tuesday in Awka, Anambra State, the Secretary of the party in the state, Chukwuma Agufugo, said what the government of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) did was a kind of calling the referee to change the goal post at the middle of a football match.

He said that PDP government hoodwinked INEC into taking such decision in order to make Nigerians to lose hope in the electoral process.

He said,“This is the time for change the masses of Nigerians have been yearning for, this is the time people have been waiting for God’s intervention in Nigeria and nobody can change that, postponement or not.

“What Jonathan and INEC have done is shifting the date of a funeral, but they cannot raise the dead, everybody is yearning for change and that is what APC is bringing to them.”