Elections postponement: I’m not worried, Gods will is supreme – Peter Obi

As Nigerians are disquiet over the postponement of the
presidential and national assembly elections, the vice presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi,
shocked many as he exhibited placidness and pleaded with Nigerians
to be unruffled.

Obi who attended morning mass, advised PDP supporters to be
calm, noting that Gods will is supreme at all times.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
through its chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, announced the
postponement of both the presidential, national, governorship and
state house of assembly elections at about 2:45 am on Saturday.

The presidential and national assembly elections billed to hold
today was shifted to 23rd February, while governorship and state
house was postponed to 9th March.

Reeling reasons for its decision, the commission opined, that
the rescheduled elections would give the commission the opportunity
to address identified challenges in order to maintain the quality
of the elections.

The statement reads; “Following a careful review of the
implementation of its logistics and operational plan and the
determination to conduct free, fair and credible elections, the
Commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the
elections as scheduled is no longer feasible.

“Consequently, the Commission has decided to reschedule the
Presidential and National Assembly Elections to Saturday, 23rd
February 2019.

“Furthermore, the Governorship, State House of Assembly and
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council Elections is
rescheduled to Saturday 9th March 2019. This will afford the
Commission the opportunity to address identified challenges in
order to maintain the quality of our elections.”

Reacting to the above, ‎Valentine Obienyem‎, who visited Obi in
his country home, Agulu, cited the former governor as saying “Val
nothing has changed about my belief that God’s will is supreme at
all times.”

On his own, Val who was shocked on hearing about the
postponement asked the following questions:

How can INEC convince anybody that it suddenly discovered its
unpreparedness on the day of the election? What of foreign
observers already in the country? What of those that traveled home
from their destinations? What of those contesting that had already
paid their agents? There are many questions begging for
answers.