NGF cautions against violence In Kogi, Bayelsa polls

AHEAD of Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa and the supplementary election in Kogi State, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has appealed to the people of the affected to shun any form of violence and come out to elect the person of their choices.

It is in doing so the Forum believes the country could convince the outside world Nigerians have clearly embraced democracy.

Speaking to State House correspondents yesterday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, the Chairman of the NGF, and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari also re-echoed the governors’ position on the controversial N18,000 minimum wage
My advise to the general public is that we can now start calling ourselves advanced country when it comes to democracy in Africa.

As big, as large as Nigeria, we can demonstrate the voter rights to choose what you want and public now are the ones that will install the leadership by themselves as I as well as the President.
Therefore, people should turn out en masse and vote to do their own constitutional or legitimate rights to choose their leadership.

As the President keeps saying that he wants to bequeath the legacy of a good election because he was one of the beneficiaries of a good election. So, it is no longer going to be business as usual where the security will be the people to do the election but rather to safeguard the interest of the public.
Therefore, the people of Bayelsa and Kogi states should turn out en masse and choose their leadership because that is what we are benefitting from who are here.”

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