Election Rigging is Over in Nigeria- President Goodluck Jonathan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="story-featured-image" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 15px; width: 368px;"> <img alt="President Goodluck Jonathan" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" scale="0" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/President-Jonathan-360x225.jpg" style="border: none; float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding: 4px;" width="360" /><div class="featured-image-caption" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 5px 10px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Goodluck Jonathan</span></div> </div> <div id="nrelate_flyout_placeholder"> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Washington DC, USA, said the days when a few politicians, acting in concert with their hirelings and thugs, could hijack voter cards and other electoral materials to manipulate the outcome of elections were gone forever in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The President also said the Federal Government would take all necessary steps to ensure that no individual, group or political party would be able to thwart the legitimate choice of voters in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement by Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati, said the President spoke at a meeting he had with Nigerian professionals in the US.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jonathan was quoted as saying that he remained fully committed to keeping the promise he made in 2011 that he would do everything possible to ensure that elections in Nigeria become very free, fair and credible.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the promise had been fulfilled in recent elections in Edo, Ondo and Ekiti States.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The President was quoted to have told his audience that “the issue of credible elections must be institutionalised in Nigeria. Our electoral processes were not very good or credible when we came into office, but as I promised, we have been working very hard to change things and ensure that our elections are more credible, that every legitimate vote counts and that the results are acceptable to the electorate.</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I promise you that the Osun governorship elections will be very free, fair and credible.”</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

Election Rigging is Over in Nigeria- President Goodluck Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday in Washington DC, USA, said the days when a few politicians, acting...

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