Members of the APC, including the president and Vice president at the APC Caucus meeting, Monday
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is resolute to continue with campaigns in the light of the election postponement.
This was disclosed by Adams Oshiomhole, the APC National Chairman, at the party’s National Caucus Meeting in Abuja, Monday.
According to Oshiomhole, “without consulting INEC, we are proceeding and we are ready to meet them in court. Because they cannot by administrative fiat amend or distort extra provisions in the relevant electoral act and those laws are not secret to INEC”.
“To ask us as a political party not to go out? The members, our people, would have forgotten. Some would have assumed that ‘look, I’m not sure what these people want’. And the result could be very, very low turnout. That is not good for a party that has huge, huge support base. It can only be good for a party that is not sure of its level of grassroots support”, he said.
Oshiomhole added that not continuing with campaigns would lead to low voter turnout and “that is when election rigging is most easy. Voter turnout and voter apathy can result from the confusion. If at our level, we are sufficiently disturbed, what would be the fate of the ordinary man? I think we need to remind them across the country that elections have been rescheduled and they should have trust, faith, and remain determined to vote”.
“The process of doing that would require that we return to campaign between now and Thursday this week. Friday is not a campaign day”.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the postponement of the elections by one week, respectively, hours before the presidential and National Assembly elections were scheduled to begin on Saturday, February 16, 2019.
