Another Support For Atiku

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The presidential candidate of National Interest Party(NIP), and chairman of the party, Mrs Eunice Atuejide has dropped her ambition of contesting fot the coverted office in the 2019 presidential polls due for Saturday, February 23. ln the same vein,she has declared full support for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for President. According to a statement she released in that regard, Mrs. Atuejide explained that at the time she set out on this journey in 2016, she promised to always put Nigeria first, adding that in doing this, she invested so much into bringing together all the alternative candidates, pointing out that when that failed, she invested even more into her race for the Presidency “When I set out on this journey in 2016, I promised myself one thing – to always put Nigeria first! “I invested so much into bringing together all the alternative candidates and when that failed, I invested even more into my race for the Presidency.

President Buhari To Ballot Box Snatchers,"Snatch Ballot Box,Pay With Your Life"

At the  meeting of APC caucus in Abuja on Monday,
President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that anybody
who attempts to snatch ballot boxes in other to disrupt elections
will be doing so at the expense of his own life.
The President  issued the warning,while the caucus
deliberate on the postponement of the elections.
Buhari said: “Anyone who decides to snatch ballot boxes;
this will be the last the persons will attempt to do.’’
He also warned that security forces, including soldiers, have
been put on the alert to carry out the task of securing free
and fair elections.
“I want Nigeria to be respected. I am not afraid of the
elections because I went round all the states.’’
Buhari said he would not encourage rigging because he
campaigned vigorously, visiting all the states and has the
assurances that he had done well in his campaign.
He also said that security forces and the army have been
directed to man all soft targets.
He also directed governors in states controlled by APC ‘s
governments to deploy committed APC members to man
all the polling units and chairmen and governorship
candidates of in other states should ensure same.
President Buhari said that the elections should be
conducted peacefully in all the 176,000 polling stations.
After the elections, he said, the government would want to
know what happened that caused the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone elections.

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