Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has said the general elections in the country should hold as scheduled next month.
Abubakar said government must not tinker with the option of postponing the timelines for the elections.
“Yes, we have a problem with the distribution of PVCs but the position of my party, the APC, is that since we have a voters’ register, then that should be used in conducting the elections. I also believe there is enough time between now and the elections to issue everyone with their PVCs,” Abubakar said shortly on arrival to the country.
The former Vice President, who landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airporton Thursday after a medical vacation trip, said the call made by the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, for a postponement of the elections as scheduled next month, was uncalled for and portends a dangerous signal about the intentions of the Federal Government to conduct free, fair and credible polls in February.
Abubakar was quoted to have said in the statement signed by his Media Office that he is “strong, healthy and happy” to be back to lend his support to the train of change sweeping across the country.
He said: “The duty of participating in the process of change which our great party, the APC is committed to supersedes every other consideration. For me, participating in this campaign is a call to national duty.
“It is a duty which we cannot afford to compromise upon and we must press into the consciousness of those at the helms of affairs that it is morally dubious and socially unacceptable to extend the dates of the elections by a single day from the scheduled timelines.”