Nigeria opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said, without giving evidence that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration hoped to ostracize the country’s electorate by delaying the election.
In a stream of tweets, Atiku Abubakar condemned the postponing of elections to by one week. However, he urged the citizens to be calm and patient for one more week then come out in large numbers and vote on 23rd February 2019.
As such, I call on all Nigerians to be patient. We have tolerated the maladministration of this government for four years. We can extend our tolerance a few more days and give them our verdict via our votes.
— Atiku Abubakar (@atiku) 16 February 2019
He made the comment in a tweet, one of a number of messages on his Twitter feed in which he reacted to the electoral commission’s decision to abruptly delay the presidential election by a week.
Nigeria election is now scheduled to take place on Feb. 23.