2023: Attacks on INEC facilities, ploy to create tension for possible postpoment of polls

… Nasarawa SDP Gov Candidate
……Urges Security Forces To Fish Out Perpetrators
…….Says No ammount of Intimidation wil Stop Polls

As the attacks on the facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commision, INEC Continues unabated ahead of the following General Elections, the Gubernatorial Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed Alfa has said that the dastardly act was a ploy by some elements in the country to create high political tension that would eventually lead to the postponment of the General Elections

The Nasarawa Sate SDP fagbearer who disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday while speaking on sundry issues ahead of the polls maintained that the perpetrators were not spirits but Nigerians who were determined to sabotage the polls by all means

He added that it was the same set of people who have been doing everything possible to oppose the deployment of modern technology for the conduct of the polls as planned by the electoral body that were attacking the Commission’s facilities and mounting campaign of calumny agist its officials

According to him,” they are against the deployment of modern Information Technology for the conduct o the polls, and the Commission is planning ahead of them, they are failed and expired politicians who will not succeed this time around, the country is bigger than them

” When people are afraid to win elections, they try to create problems. It is not today. We are used to it in Nigeria. It has happened 2015, 2019 that they would be scaring people. Even when Boko haram was very active, we were able to do an election, so I will like to tell these people to stop wasting their time. There is nothing they will do that will stop the Elections in Nigeria come 2023.

” When people are trying to threaten the government to threaten INEC that they should not use BVAS. And INEC says no No going back on BVAS and they know they are going to fail at the elections, of course they will start attacking. So find out as a journalist, who are these people telling INEC not to use BVAS. They are the first people the government should suspect

” If they are within the government they should be fished out, if they are not within, they should gather intelligence and know. They will find out that those people that do not want BVAS are the ones after INEC facilities and personnel Those saying they should remove INEC chairman, because he is bringing sanity to the system are the ones to suspect. So I assure the people of Nigeria, elections must hold. BVAS has come to stay and SDP is Accordthe party for Nigeria to embrace”

He urged the Nation’s security forces to rise up and pin down those he described as the enemies of the state before they would set the entire country ablaze.

Alhaji Alfa who said that the SDP’ was on a rescue mission urged Nigerians to be vigilant and expose criminal elements in thei vicinity so that the Nation could have a peaceful polls that would give the Nation a responsible leadership at levels of government

According to him, ” There is hunger and poverty in the land, Nigerians are clamouring for a change and our Party, the SDP’ is the alternative to both the APC and the PDP , the only way the change will come is for the Elections to hold peacefully and it must hold with the Peoples total support”