The Ndigbo Unity Forum
(NUF), a pan-Igbo cultural and socio-political group has congratulated
President Muhammadu Buhari, on his re-election for 2nd term in office.
The News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) recalls that Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was on
Wednesday declared re-elected by Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), having polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 states.
Buhari defeated other 72
candidates including Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), who scored 11, 255,978 votes and won 17 states and the FCT, to occupy
the second position.
The President of NUF, Mr
Augustine Chukwudum, gave the congratulatory message in an interview with NAN
in Enugu, urging Nigerians to remain calm.
Chukwudum said that
Nigerians must be applauded for coming out en mass to vote in the presidential
election.
“My appeal to every
Nigerian now is for us to remain calm as the winner has been declared by INEC.
“Any party that does not
accept the result should go to court.
“There is no need for
violence in any form under any guise,’’ Chukwudum said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier
reported that Alhaji Kabiru Mijinyawa, the speaker of Adamawa House of
Assembly, described the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari as sign of significant
development in Nigeria’s democracy.
Mijinyawa’s reaction
followed the declaration of Buhari as winner of the February 23 presidential
election by chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday, February 27, in Abuja.
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