Election Postponement: How INEC Averted ‘National Bloodshed’ – CUPP

The Coalition of United Political Parties in Nigeria (CUPP) says the delay of the 2019 decisions by INEC turned away "national slaughter" in light of the fact that the "APC needed to continue with race in the wake of bargaining appropriation and decimating materials in more than 15 states."

National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, had stunned numerous Nigerians by declaring at about 2:40 a.m. on Saturday, couple of hours to initiation of the surveys, that the races had been delayed over strategic issues.

As indicated by Yakubu, the Presidential and National Assembly races will presently hang on Saturday, 23 February.

The deferment did not run down well with the principle restriction party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose presidential applicant, Atiku Abubakar, blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for plotting to disappoint Nigerians.

In any case, the Buhari battle blamed the PDP for coordinating the delay.

Responding to the deferment, representative for the Buhari Campaign, Festus Keyamo, said the PDP online networking influencers definitely realized the races would be moved before the umpire declared it.

Yet, the representative for the CUPP, Imo Ugochinyere, asserted that the distress of President Buhari and his men to win the presidential decision, definitely, was in charge of the very late delay of the race.

"In their offer to by and by foist a disagreeable government on Nigerians, they tossed alert to the breezes and began setting appointive materials ablaze in states that are notable to be fortifications of restriction," he said in an announcement.

"These demonstrations of treachery, most likely, destroyed the arrangements of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the races.

"We have raised the caution commonly that operators of the legislature were endeavoring to guarantee that races are not held or are pronounced uncertain in zones they realize that the All Progressives Congress will never win. We have been vindicated.

"We accuse the worldwide humiliation this very late deferment has caused the country on the President, the frantic pioneers of his gathering, APC, and the country's security offices who bombed woefully in their obligations to shield discretionary materials and INEC workplaces from assaults by these foes of the country."

Ugochinyere, in any case, praised the INEC supervisor for "showing mettle" by moving the race.