BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE
NATIONAL Chairman of the National Action Council (NAC) and Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has flayed Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Maj.-General Muhammadu Buhari over his comments that the 2011 elections must not be rigged except the nation was prepared for popular revolt as witnessed by Egypt and Tunisia recently.

Describing Buhari’s warning the crying foul of a man afraid to face the darkness of reality, Agoro said Buhari should be seen as a man speaking from two sides of his mouth because he was not campaigning “far from the real happenings of President Goodluck Jonathan being presently the only one actively and seriously  seen on ground campaigning of all the candidates that INEC had so far cleared.”

Said Agoro: “His statement must therefore be seen as a pretension of the obvious of impending evil days ahead.How else must Muhammadu Buhari and his likes be told the altruistic that elections planned on Timetable dated November 23rd 2010 issued by INEC but technically hinged on Electoral Act and 1999 Amended Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria signed into law by President Jonathan on January 10 2011 is not only already rigged but legally void and dead?

“Those who are currently in the race to contest elections 2011 must know that  democracy is not about elections at all cost but observation of the rule of law at all cost. When in a democracy elections conducted are at variance with the rule of law, the imperatives of what happened in Egypt where electoral falsity reigned are bound to happen.

“Where  voters’ registration conducted by INEC gulping well over N87 billion was laden with figures in doubt, this informed by the indisputable fact that many of the Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines having before and during the exercise fallen into the wrong hands of master riggers, only those dead living to reality would still be in doubt of the 2011 election results expectations.

What other signs of things capable of falling apart do one need than INEC’s manipulation of candidates list, sadistic juxtaposing and reckless varying of candidate names and too many cases pending in the law courts against the rough handling of the electoral process?”