Forget About Postponing 2023 General Elections,  YCE Warns INEC, FG

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 *says more than 90% Yoruba are fed up with Nigeria

By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Senior Elders Forum of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) on Tuesday, warned the Independent National Electoral Commission  (INEC) and the Federal Government to forget about  postponing this year’s February general elections.
YCE Senior Elders Forum handed down the warning in Ibadan through its former National President, Col. Samuel Adeleye (rtd) 
According to the YCE Senior Elders Forum, any attempts to postpone the February and March general elections, could usher in chaos and anarchy in the country.
YCE Senior Elders Forum in the statement, emphasized that postponing this year’s general elections would only mean postponing the evil day and that somehow in the future, the country will still have to be confronted with that problem.
” INEC which has been saying it’s up to the task is already becoming jittery; everyone is wondering if we are going to be safe. We won’t blame INEC if it is feeling insecure. The issues of agitation are mounting in every nooks and crannies of this country. If INEC is up to the task, it should go ahead because if they cancel the election, it is just postponing the evil day,” it said.
YCE Senior Elders Forum added,  “Insecurity could likely go unabated. Postponing the election could lead us into chaos and anarchy. If they cancel the election, will President Buhari be there till May 29 next year? Will he still be in Aso Rock? 
The Senior Elders Forum stressed further that  at present, more than 90 per cent of people in the South West part of the country are fed up with the “concoction called Nigeria”, and that except for a negligible few who are eating mere “crumbs that fall from their masters’ table”, a greater percentage prefer to sit at a roundtable to renegotiate the amalgamation of Nigeria which has since expired.
“From our own intelligence report, more than 90 per cent of Yoruba people are already fed up with the present concoction called Nigeria. It is only those who are feeding on the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table that are still paying homage to their Northern leaders”.
On the Monday protest at Ojota in Lagos, YCE frowned at organisers of the protest  for exposing the youth to danger while they sit back abroad and watch them on the television, saying, ” we, the elders heard a report that the protest was organised by some people outside the country. This made us a bit unhappy because those people who organised it didn’t come to lead or supervise the protest  to prevent it from being violent. We can’t allow our youth to be used as cannon folders.
“If we had an inkling that they were going to hold the protest, we would have said no, don’t do it because Nigeria is in a dangerous situation especially now when election is just about 45 days. At the moment, whoever organised that protest chose a wrong time. This is a highly volatile and sensitive period. People should do more of planning and thinking”. 

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