2015:APGA BOSS TELLS THOSE THREATENING BOYCOTT OF POLLS TO SHUT UP *says parameters favour Jonathan * warns against subtle moves to shift poll again

2015: SHUT UP, APGA BOSS TO THOSE THREATENING BOYCOTT OF POLLS
*says parameters favour Jonathan
* warns against subtle moves to shift pollagainThe national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA), Chief VictorUmeh haslashed out on those political parties threatening to pull out of the general elections if the national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), ProfAttahiruJega was not removed and or if the temporary voters Cards was not allowed, and if the Card readerswere made paramount in the conduct of the coming polls.Umeh, who was reacting on the mood of the nation as the countdown on the March 28,2015 begin, said he sincerely doubt who those people who were talking really are. According to him, "... no one appears to see the possibility that things would go normal. It is inimical tothe credibility of theelection when some named candidates have already been misusing the security agencies; while some other politicians and political parties were busy openly criticizing and demonizingJega for nothing..."He therefore urged all parties and politicians to desist from scandalizing the INEC and it's officials. He also queried the identity of those he described as hirelings trying to browbeat everyone that if they fail to have their wishes the poll would not hold. "Who are their candidates, what are the names of the so-called parties that are threatening everyone?, Umeh queried.

Umeh therefore emphasized that it would be suicidal for the election to be postponed again for whatever reason. He cautioned all to eschew making further inflammatory comments and or actions that would render the election's outcome controversial. He charged the hierarchy of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to stop acting or commenting like they have already lost the poll. He said that, "....after all the natural and man-made parameters and credentials favour President Goodluck Jonathan immensely- age, character, simplicity, desire to make the nation a model and level headed approach to issues/individuals", he noted.

The APGA boss noted with some chuckles that the All Progressives Congress(APC) has not given the electorate their blueprint on how to move the nation forward. He stated that there was no how the country would start going backwards, especially when APC was vehemently opposed to the recent national conference where all the issues bedeviling the nation's polity were openly and exhaustively discussed tirelessly by about 500 representatives broken down into 20 distinct committee.

He denounced the APC and it's supporters to be persons who supported or cared less about the mounting imperfections and injustices pervading the polity today, hence their boycott of the gathering. That the implementation of the more than 600 recommendations of that confab was the strongest reason why Jonathan should be returned in a landslide electoral victory backed by all persons of goodwill.

In Umeh's views, the implementation of the confab recommendations would enthrone a better Nigeria that would be the pride of all citizens.
From Chuks Collins, Awka