Buhari is not interested in free and fair election – Tambuwal

Aminu Tambuwal, the Sokoto state governor, has said President
Muhammadu Buhari is not interested in a free and fair election.

The former speaker of the House of Representatives who spoke in
a recent interview said, Mr Buhari had no reason not to sign the
electoral amendment bill into law.

Tambuwal who was Speaker when the Electoral Act was amended just
before the 2015 election said “The president’s reason is
laidback.”

“Amendments were done while I was Speaker and not only once.
President Muhammadu Buhari of today is not interested in free and
fair election. APC is looking for a shortcut to get back to Aso
Rock, and they are doing everything humanly possible to take us
back from the gains of 2015 in improving our electoral system, and
they are desperate.”

Tambuwal, however, said his party, PDP, will insist that votes
must count since the president has refused to sign the bill into
law.

“We are responding by going to the people; we have been
campaigning. We will insist that votes must count, it is not
negotiable. The fact that they are interested in rigging which is
obvious, does not mean that there should not be a free and fair
election.”

“We are insisting on free and fair election, and we are
reminding Prof. Mahmood Yakubu that there will be a day that he
will cease to be INEC chairman and he has a family, he has a
history, he has a future.”