Postponement of Election: Obi calls for more sacrifice

The Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, Mr. Peter Obi has expressed dissatisfaction over the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections that ought to take place yesterday.

Speaking to newsmen in his Onitsha residence yesterday, Obi who aligned himself to the position of the Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secundus appealed to Nigerians to remain calm and peaceful.

Obi added that the waste associated with the postponement was staggering in view of the fact that Nigerians  travelled to their states from different parts of the country and abroad to fulfill their civic duties only to get the news of the postponement on the Election Day . He encouraged them to remain committed by possibly staying behind as further demonstration of patriotism because, according to him, "no sacrifice to get Nigeria working again is a waste."

On the argument that the PDP lacked the moral justification to condemn the postponement, having done the same in 2011 and 2015, Obi who admitted, argued that the fact that elections were postponed in the past  should be the reason why it should not happen again  on the  supposition that lessons of the past should be used to improve the future.

Obi took the opportunity to appeal to INEC to explore the extra one week window and allow voters to continue collecting their PVCs.