In a swift reaction to the postponement of the 2019 election, the APC caucus held a meeting to deliberate on the rescheduling. The meeting chaired by President Buhari, also in attendance was Vice President and all the party’s former and serving governors and members of its National Working Committee (NWC).
Speaking during the meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari said that any politician that decides to sponsor political thugs to cause trouble or to snatch ballot boxes in the rescheduled elections will be doing so at great risk.
The President read the riot act at the All Progressives Congress (APC) emergency National Caucus meeting on Monday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat.
He stressed that security operatives had been ordered to deal with any such persons ruthlessly.
Its members include “Anybody who decides to snatch ballot boxes or be a thug will be dealt with ruthlessly,” President Buhari said.
Recall that INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, had early on Saturday postponed by one week the Presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for the day.
By the postponement, the Presidential and National Assembly elections will now come up on Feb. 23, while the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections will come up on March 9.
