Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just concluded governorship election in Kaduna State, Dr. Jonathan Asake, has expressed fear on what would become of the country if the Nigerian judicial uphelds the crime committed against the Nigerian people in the last presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Asake who spoke to Daily Sun, said the ruling party has an agenda against the Nigerian people, and INEC’s conduct of the last election is simply part of the plan. He said unless the APC is remover from power, Nigerians would be in for another long walk.
"We have been saying it over and over; I personally have continued to cry out, but it seems very clear all the time that this present APC government is foisting an agenda on the nation; an agenda which supports this kind of mindless destruction, killings and displacement of people from their ancestral lands," he said in response to question on the resurgence of killings in Southern Kaduna and Benue State after the elections are over.
He continued, "So if this thing stopped during the electioneering, there was the fear that from all the parameters like I said earlier that Nigerians were going to chase away this government. Since Nigerians couldn’t achieve that and the government is coming back, so the sponsors of these atrocities, who are still in pursuit of their agenda said, we have bounced back and they couldn’t stop us, so let us continue with our terrorism so that we can achieve our agenda.
"The agenda is the displacement of people and taking over their ancestral lands. Taking over peoples ancestral land in order to change the demography – is it cultural demography, is it political demography, is it economic, etc. Let us not be in doubt of this.
"For instance, if the LP had won, you would not see this violence anymore even before swearing in. Nigerians are still in for a long walk if the judiciary doesn’t rise to the occasion because an evil agenda is being plotted against this nation. It has not stopped and it will not stop until the will of Nigerians is upheld.
"The will of Nigerians can only be upheld when the votes count; when the votes of February 25 are upheld by the judiciary. If INEC is part of that agenda, the judiciary can stop it. The judiciary can live with the will of the general people of Nigeria. Nigerians like to stay together, Nigerians want to progress, they want to see development; they are hardworking and committed and they love themselves."
"However, the few that are in pursuit of this evil agenda are the ones using ethnicity, religion to cause confusion and to divide and rule. I pray that the Judiciary will live up to expectation and stop this nonsense," he concluded.