People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration that death awaits anyone who snatches ballot boxes during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections as a call to violence. According to him, “I don’t support ballot snatching. “I don’t support ballot snatching. “No patriotic Nigerian will support ballot snatching, ballot stuffing et al, however, what a leader is expected to do in this kind of situation is to warn the generality moderately and possibly by saying that security agencies will deal appropriately with anybody found disorganizing the electoral process. “But this utterance of people paying with their lives will give the impression to the outside world that we have no president, but a military junta,” Onuesoke submitted.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 19, 2019 15:22 UTC