He stated this while declaring that supporters and agents of the ruling party would not be involved in criminal activities during the elections.
Ribadu, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said this in reaction to the criticisms over the charge of President Muhammadu Buhari that security operatives should deal ruthlessly with thugs and ballot box snatchers during the elections.
DAILY POST had reported that President Buhari, while addressing the APC caucus meeting earlier in the week, charged security agencies to be ruthless in dealing with ballot box snatchers during the elections.
The ex-EFCC boss has, however, stated that APC was ready for the election, according to New Telegraph.
He said, “We would say we are very much prepared and we have worked hard. Twenty-four hours day and night, we have been on this to prepare our supporters, particularly our volunteers and canvassers. We have over 300,000 of such people across the country who have formally declared they are working for us.
“We have given them all the necessary information they need to know that will help to sell our candidate very well and we have told them to do it peacefully in a way that we would have free and fair elections.
“They are ready and are all out there. We have sent a message across that we must conduct ourselves with all decorum, dignity with the APC/ PMB volunteers.
“We have received very strong message from PMB and from everybody that no misbehavior will be tolerated.
“Our people will behave very well, our people will not be involved in any criminal activities, our people are going to conduct themselves according to the law and we believe that victory will be ours because we have prepared and worked hard.
“I am very happy and excited with our level of preparedness towards the forthcoming exercise on Saturday. We only pray that we would be able to have it from all the players to adopt same attitude of free and fair election and let the winner emerge through a peaceful process.”
