Polls: Group Slams Britain For Putting Buhari’s Medical Tours Above Common Good

The Mandate Protection Vanguard (MPV), a pro-democracy group, has called on the United States and the European Union not to follow Britain in recognizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration as winner of last week’s presidential election.

The group in a statement intoned that the US and EU were known for strict adherence to the tenets of democracy as it disclosed that Britain may have been motivated by the fact that Buhari’s attends to his medical needs in that country.

The assertion follows Britain’s congratulatory message to Buhari on the election. Britain’s minister of state for Africa had urged Nigerians to have confidence in the results of the election.

But responding, Celestine Eromonsele, national president of MVP national president, wondered if the poll would be accepted in her country.

“Manipulations and rigging of the elections. What started as a peaceful election ended up being one of the most horrible daylight rape of our democracy. Ballot boxes were snatched and some destroyed by fire,” he said.

“Card readers were stolen and many tampered with to accept without verification and in many places card readers were not used at all.

“Pre-thumb-printed ballot papers were stuffed into the ballot box. Breach of the INEC security measure was evident with the use of 2015 stamps.

“Multiple voting by illegally acquired PVCs was used by APC members. Impersonations by people voting more than 20 times with different cards.

“We ask Theresa May whether standard used to conduct last Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria where so many people died, ballot boxes snatched, military personnel deployed to the strongholds of the major opposition party, PDP to disenfranchise voters are what she termed free, fair and credible?

“Is it because Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is patronising UK hospitals, reason she was endorsing illegality?.”

Asking the US and EU not to follow suit, said:

“We hereby call on United States and the European Union not to tow the path of Theresa May. We urge EU to reject the election in the name of fairness,” Eromonsele said.

“America is known for justice, European Union should stand firm against the sham and rape of of democracy going on in Nigeria.”

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