Accord Party presidential candidate, Prof. Christopher Imumolen, has beged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to walk his talk and not interfere in up coming general elections.
While hosting All Progressives Congress governors in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari announced that he would respect the will of the Nigerian people by not trying to influence the outcome of the elections.
Welcoming president’s decision to remain neutral in a statement on Sunday, the 38-year-old presidential candidate said Buhari must end the stereotypes of incumbents using the instrumentality of state power to influence the results of elections.
According to him, Buhari’s stance on neutrality represents perhaps the biggest victory witnessed in the electoral process in over two decades of the country’s return to democratic rule.
He said such neutrality had the tendency to boost the confidence of both the contestants and the voting public in the electoral process.
“What makes his position on non-interference in the elections most remarkable is the fact that he is an interested party. The APC would be presenting a candidate in the elections, and if past antecedents is the yardstick, then we would all naturally believe he’d do anything, including using the security forces and the electoral umpire to sway the results of the elections his way.
“For this, I salute him. Now, Nigerians can be fully assured that their votes will count and all the negative practices of the past will not happen this time.