Festus Keyamo, Director, Strategic Communications of All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign Council has backed President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s death threats to ballot box snatchers ahead of the 2019 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Keyamo defended Buhari, saying the President was 100 percent correct constitutionally, by making the comments and that he would even encourage him to repeat it.<\/p>\n
Keyamo, appearing on Channels Tv, tackled Dino Melaye over Buhari\u2019s statement, noting that ballot box snatching is treason and therefore punishable by death.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI think I have listened to so many uninformed comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the president said is 100 percent correct, defensible and I will urge him to repeat it over and over again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President said that whoever leads a band of thugs to go and snatch ballot boxes will pay dearly for it with his life. That is a correct statement of the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cBallot box snatching is robbery. Ballot box snatching is armed robbery. Ballot box snatching is thwarting the will of the people<\/p>\n
\u201cBallot box snatching is changing a government by force, It\u2019s treason. All are punishable by death.<\/p>\n
\u201cDino, yoaHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, has hinted on the possible prosecution of the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over his \u201cbody bag\u201d threat against foreigners who interfere with Nigeria\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n
Falana stated that El-Rufai would be prosecuted at the expiration of his tenure as governor.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the secretariat of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, during a memorial event in honour of Beko Ransome-Kuti, on Tuesday, the activist lawyer also urged the international communities to impose a visa ban on El-rufai.<\/p>\n
The activist lawyer also disclosed that the governor\u2019s remark was a prove that the general elections would be a do-or-die affair.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cLast week, Mr. Nasiru El Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State threatened that foreign election observers and monitors who interfere in the 2019 general elections would return to their countries in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run out country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe threat to attack and kill foreign election observers in Nigeria constitutes an infraction of the Electoral Act, 2010 and the Penal Code but because Governor El Rufai currently enjoys immunity his trial and prosecution for the offence will have to await the end of his tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe western countries that have threatened to place travel restrictions on members of the ruling class who incite violence or interfere in the electoral process should not hesitate to make an example of the governor without any further delay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Special Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who has also warned against any form of electoral violence in the country is urged to hold Governor El Rufai responsible if foreign observers and monitors are killed during the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n
\u201cNotwithstanding the recklessness of the threat to attack foreign election observers, Governor El Rufai\u2019s has confirmed that the 2019 general election is going to be a do or die affair (apologies to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo) for the leading factions of the ruling class.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince leading politicians have recruited and armed thugs the general elections will be characterised by violence in many parts of the country. Even if some of the thugs are arrested and are arraigned in the courts, the various attorneys-general would file nolle prosequi to terminate the criminal cases as the managers of the neocolonial state cannot afford to prosecute their armed agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, since the children of the sponsors of violence are in expensive schools at home and abroad we urge the masses of our people not to allow their own children to be used as cannon fodders during the battle for the control of political power and economic resources of the country by the ruling class.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is indubitably clear that both APC and PDP are resolutely committed to the status quo which permits the manipulation of election results.<\/p>\n
\u201cHence, both parties have rejected the reform of the electoral system. But it is high time democratic forces mounted sufficient pressure on the political class to implement the recommendations of the electoral reform panels.\u201d<\/p>\n
u should spend more time in your Law Classes than (clowning) in hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari said he has ordered security agencies, to ensure the general election goes on smoothly.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the party\u2019s caucus meeting on Monday, Buhari made it clear that anyone who tries to disrupt the electoral process, will be doing so \u201cat the expense of his own life\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will warn those who has planned to disrupt the peaceful elections to desist from their planned actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who tries that is doing it at the expense of his own life,\u201d President Buhari said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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