Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said the president stated this at the All Progressives Congress (APC) emergency caucus meeting at the party’s secretariat, Abuja.
President Buhari said: ‘‘Definitely, the reasons such incompetence manifested have to be explained to the nation. After the elections, we have to know exactly what happened and who is responsible.
‘‘The constitution and the laws protect INEC but they must not take us for granted. If for example, the National Assembly refused to approve what INEC wanted, then INEC would have more than enough reasons why they couldn’t perform.
‘‘If the time for the constitutional elections, four years after was not obeyed by the government and the system, INEC will have a case. But we do not understand why this inefficiency and we have to move into details after the election to find out who’s responsible.’’
While noting that the electoral commission had all the time and resources it needed to conduct the polls, the president said there was no justification ‘‘to wait for only six hours to postpone the votes’’, in the early hours of Feb. 16.
He also used the occasion to warn all political actors to ensure an environment free from intimidation and violence for all eligible citizens to peacefully cast their ballot on the Election Day.
