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Yar’Adua’s planned meeting with stakeholders on LG polls belated - AC

Thursday, 20 December 2007

The Action Congress (AC) has described as medicine after death the plan by President Umaru Yar’Adua to meet with key stakeholders on the violence, manipulations and fraud that attended last Saturday’s local government polls in some PDP-controlled states.

In a statement issued in Abuja Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the
party insisted the only way to mitigate the disaster that the council elections turned out to be is to
cancel the results and hold fresh polls at a more auspicious time.

It said failure to do so would mean that President Yar’Adua, though not the architect of the evolving
one-party state, is helping to nurture the evil plan embarked upon by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to emasculate all opposition parties in the country by hook or crook.

"President Yar’Adua, as the leader of the country and his party, was adequately warned against allowing the council elections to hold, especially in view of the fact that the voter’s register was not ready; that the panel he set up to reform the country’s electoral process has yet to conclude its work and indications that the polls would be dogged by violence.

"If he were that sincere and concerned about the way things turned out eventually, he would have heeded the calls to order his party to delay the elections.

"Now that his party (PDP) has awarded itself all the contested councils at the polls, he is calling for a meeting. That is akin to shutting the pen after the chicken has bolted. It is medicine after death!" AC said.

The party warned that out of the desperation to justify its so-called landslide in the last general
elections and grab everything in sight, the PDP may unwittingly be undermining the country’s fledgling
democracy, with dire consequences for all.

AC therefore advised the President to "save our democracy from the clutches of the PDP by pitching
your tent with those calling for the cancellation of the so-called local government elections without
delay’’.

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	1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 25-12-2007 16:55 - Guest
	local gov. election i think the president better do something about the fraudulent elections otherwise the contry is in for doom http://www.yahoo.com

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