Rescheduled Election: We’re ready, will make sure votes count – Fashola

Tom Okpe, Abuja

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is ready for the rescheduled election on Saturday, February 23, saying that they will make everything possible to ensure every vote count. Fashola also said all that the APC is saying is backed up by the Electoral Act adding that the presence of security men at polling units is just to make peace prevails, provide security to intending voter’s who will be scared by hoodlums prepared to truncate electoral process. Fashola who is also the Director, Election Planning and Monitoring of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in a press conference on Wednesday said: “We should not allow our enthusiasm draw us back; the vigilance of agents and those appointed to serve our party will stand”. The Director expressed sympathy on behalf of the Campaign Council to all Nigerians who sacrificed and their patience as “we collectively go to perform our Civic rights to vote and make Democracy stronger. “We must not allow the actions of anti-democratic agents deter us or dampen our enthusiasm. Great democracies and successful societies are the product of sacrifice and determination. “A lot of Nigerians have sacrificed greatly and sometimes supremely with their lives to give to this democracy. We must convert the disappointment of the 16 February to an all time determination on 23 February to honour the sacrifice that others and ourselves have made”. He further explained that democracy will preserve our freedom; therefore, the vigilance of all and particularly those appointed to serve as agents of the party must be at all times, high. The Directorates of Election Planning and Monitoring, Contact and Mobilization however set out what all agents should comply with both at the State’s, Local Government, Ward and Polling units: what their rights as agents are and what to do.