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former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, weekend, advised the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct 2015 general
elections on the same day.
Mr. Buhari gave the advice in Daura, Katsina State, while answering
questions from journalists after he obtained the membership card of the
All Progressives Congress.
He said that conducting the elections in one day would help in reducing election malpractice and save cost.
He added that the litigations that trailed the 2003, 2007 and 2011
general elections would be avoided if the elections were held on the
same day.
“If all the elections are conducted on the same day, there will be
less cases of snatching of ballot boxes and use of political thugs to
rig elections’’, he said.
Mr. Buhari, who urged party members to come out en masse and register
with the APC, expressed optimism that the opposition party would win
the 2015 general elections in the country.
INEC has fixed presidential and National Assembly elections for
February 14, 2015, while governorship and state house of assembly
elections occur a fortnight later.
(NAN)
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