Group Is Against Canceling Elections In States Affected By Insurgency

The Northeast Democratic Network (NDN)
has claimed that Nigerian authorities have
no basis for stopping elections in the
affected by insurgency North-East states,
since similar attacks in Abuja didn't stop
President Goodluck Jonathan and other
officials from going to Kano the next day
and dancing there.
It would be recalled that the bloodiest attack in
Abuja history took place on Monday at Nyanya
bus station and left scores of people dead and
hundreds injured.
NDN coordinator Muazu Ibrahim Misau
commented on the statement by Information
Minister Labaran Maku, who explained that the
president had gone ahead with the planned rally
just to show insurgents that their deadly activities
wouldn't hold back the country.
"Labaran Maku finally thought like our Governors
in the northeast who have repeatedly argued that
should we exclude any part of Nigeria from the
2015 elections on account of Boko Haram, it
means the sect can declare victory.
"The fact that President Jonathan chose to go
ahead to Kano and dance to the music of Sani
Danja in merriment and high spirit while
hundreds of survivors of Abuja attacks painfully
suffer on sick beds, just to prove a point to Boko
Haram is even a lesser reason compared to the
constitutional need for elections in every part of
Nigeria."
Thus they urged officials not to exclude any part
of Nigeria from the upcoming elections, "unless if
both the President and Maku merely showed
insensitivity and deceived Nigerians by claiming
they all went to Kano to sing and dance mainly
advance political interests at the expense of
highly traumatised Nigerians in Abuja and other
parts of the country."