{"id":259702,"date":"2020-09-18T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=259702"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:08:24","slug":"edo-poll-buhari-warns-against-do-or-die-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=259702","title":{"rendered":"Edo poll: Buhari warns against \u2018do-or-die\u2019 politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Edo<\/p>\n

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised political parties, candidates and security agents to behave responsibly in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo.<\/p>\n

The president, in a message to voters, political parties, election officials and security personnel, also warned against what he described as \u201cthe do-or-die mentality to politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, quoted Buhari to have said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am passionately committed to free and fair elections, but my own commitment is not enough if other actors at ground zero refuse to abide by the rules.<\/p>\n

\u201dI want to see democratic standards in the country raised higher at every level, but these cannot be achieved when politicians resort to do-or-die methods to gain power by any means or machination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe do-or-die mentality to politics is a threat to free and fair elections because the actors are more focused on winning than caring about a fair outcome that reflects the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president appealed to all political parties and their candidates to respect law and order.<\/p>\n

He also advised election officials and security agents \u201cto remain neutral to ensure free and fair elections and avoid any action(s) capable of compromising the integrity of the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d Conducting free and fair elections is one of my main concerns for our democracy, and I want this commitment to be one of the legacies I will leave behind when I depart office,\u201d the statement quoted the president as saying.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed Saturday for the Edo governorship election.<\/p>\n

NAN also reports that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, Godwin Obaseki, who are the main contenders, had since signed a peace accord.<\/p>\n

NAN<\/p>\n

Vanguard News Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has advised political parties, candidates and security agents to behave responsibly in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo. The president, in a message to voters, political parties, election officials and security personnel, also warned against what he described as \u201cthe do-or-die mentality to politics.\u201d The president\u2019s Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2432,13787,7001],"class_list":["post-259702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adams-oshiomhole","tag-edo-apc","tag-obaseki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}