Buhari gives warning as Rivers boil following election re-runs - Top 12 quotes
There has been so much noise regarding the just concluded election re-run in Rivers state, and for a greater part of the passing week, the exercise shaped the other of things.
Below are are 12 quotes that tell of events as they affected Nigeria in the passing week.
1. "The rerun elections should not be seen as a do-or-die affair to the extent that people will be killed, maimed and property destroyed in a mindless display of crude primitive instincts. Innocent blood should never be sacrificed on the altar of political contest for temporary power.”
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, December 9, said the River state rerun election should not be seen as a do or die affair.
2. “Unfortunately, it is clear that there were first steps since we came into office which created problems and the very nature itself of the amalgamating parties, created its own issues all of which has tended, up till now, affected the mode of operations and the level of interactions between the various arms of government and the party."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
The All Progressives Congress has admitted to taking some steps that has affected the country.
3. "This is what we call the election of our lives. Before I used to tell you, ‘Please don’t fight’. Is that not what I used to tell you? But I think we will bend it a bit… I don’t want my church to stop me from taking Holy Communion. So, what I will tell you is don’t kill anybody, but do not be killed."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Former governor of Rivers state, urging APC supporters to wake up to the challenge and confront whoever confronts them during the election.
4. "We need peace for development to take place, Nigeria is a great nation, no matter what is happening, Nigeria will, Niger Delta will succeed, Gbaramatu Kingdom will succeed."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state taking a message of peace to the creeks of the Niger Delta, saying peace was a panacea for meaningful development to take place.
5. “I was shocked out of my revere. Who does that? How can a government pay murderers to stop murdering? Are we living under the mafia? we in Chicago of the 1920s? Is this Cecily of just before the Second World War?"
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
6. "Nigerians may have observed the distorted, uncoordinated and incomprehensible manner in which Chief Wike addresses the public these days, which is perhaps an indication that he needs psychiatrist assistance as a matter of urgency before his case goes beyond remedy."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers state has recommended an immediate psychiatric attention for Governor Nyesom Wike, saying that his behavior and utterances these days do not present him as a person who is still in full control of his mental faculties.
7. "Can you all see the fraud this APC people are applying. After, they will say Wike is all about trouble. Which trouble are my making, I am a peace maker. You all know me to be a peaceful man."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers, has said that there are plots to rig the forthcoming election re-run in the state.
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Nigerian singer and former executive director of the National Centre for Women Development Onyeka Onwenu has said that no Igbo person was born to accept defeat.
9. "They (elite) should reflect on the condition of the country, and stop making expensive demands because things cannot be done the old way.
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, December 6, asked Nigerian elite to stop insisting that things should be done the ‘old way’, which impoverished the nation.
10. "I remember my elementary chemistry where suspension is defined as 'a heterogenous mixture in which the solute particles do not dissolve but get suspended throughout the bulk of the medium'. I’m proud to be suspended by El-Rufai, a serpent in the caravan of change"
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has been accused of diverting the federal allocation for his Kaduna state to paying Fulani herdsmen so that they would stop attacking residents.
11. “Nigerians have seen the two sides of the coin and they have an opportunity to decide, based on your performance, based on the trust that they have in you. God is a God of second chance.”
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Chief Olabode George, the former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed hope that God and Nigerians will give his party another opportunity to rule the nation in 2019.
12. “With this ignoble action by the federal government, it is now clear that the federal government is out to subvert the will of the people of Rivers state."
Rivers boils as President Buhari gives serious warning
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has raised an alarm over the imminent danger being posed to Nigeria by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government.
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