Nigeria’s elections: Buhari sends powerful warning to those planning to disrupt 2019 polls

President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that he has ordered security agencies, to ensure the general election goes on smoothly.

Speaking at the party’s caucus meeting on Monday, Buhari made it clear that anyone who tries to disrupt the electoral process, will be doing so “at the expense of his own life”.

“I will warn those who have planned to disrupt the peaceful elections to desist from their planned actions.

“Anyone who tries that is doing it at the expense of his own life,” President Buhari said.

The general elections are scheduled to hold this Saturday, February 23, after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), moved it by a week, citing logistics issues.

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