International trade and investment promoter Hon. Nwabueze Buchi George has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to avoid issues that marred the presidential and national assembly elections last month.
Buchi George who
spoke from Abuja said INEC owes Nigerians a free and fair elections, adding
that it is unfair that the most important elections seemed like a testrun for
the new technology.
Despite assurances
from the electoral umpire, he said that another INEC’s failure will turn the
nation upside down, as people are already frustrated by the situation in the
country.
“People are already
frustrated by what seemed like avoidable mistakes during the presidential
elections”
“Nigerians are now
at the level where no one can play with their intelligence and we also know
what we deserve which is nothing but the best”
He called on
Nigerians not to be discouraged by the outcome of the last election, but to go
out en masse and vote for those that will make the nation better.
He hailed the
commitment of youths in the electoral process, adding that if more youths will
vote at the upcoming elections, the outcome will be different.
“Politicians
understand how to play around with the class of people who are not enlightened
and they have been very okay with the absence of youths in the electoral
processes since inception”
“Youths have now
taken their place. They have understood where the change they are yearning for
will come from and their participation in the Presidential and National
Assembly elections turned out to be the game changer”
“I will urge them
not to relent because no battle is won in a day, this is the beginning of the
statement and come this saturday, it will be completed for this year’s
episode”, he said.
Buchi George is the
president of Globe Chambers of Commerce and Industry, an international trade
and investment promotion company.
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