Sowore Blast Buhari Over Threat To Ballot Box Snatchers

President Muhammadu Buhari is still a “dictator at heart,” according to the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore.

Sowore said this in a reaction to Buhari’s death threat to ballot box snatchers ahead of the general elections.

According to him, Buhari’s comment was meant to scare electoral offenders as he also noted that the Nigerian leader still had the military blood in him.

“General Buhari is clearly still a military dictator at heart,” the Sahara Reporters owner told Punch.

“Ballot box snatching is a terrible offence, but how could anyone ask for an offender to be killed without recourse to the law? Are there no courts? Shouldn’t an offender be charged to court first?”

According to him, “It is ironic that the same person who is quick to ask for ballot box snatchers to be killed has no problems with heading a party that engages in massive vote-buying and rigging as we saw in Ekiti and Osun.

“While Buhari called for the ballot box snatchers to be killed, what about the people who sent them to snatch the ballot boxes?

“What about the politicians who paid them to cause chaos at the polls? By raising the spectre of violence at polling centres and encouraging law enforcement agencies to shoot during elections, the President is essentially scaring people away from the polls.

“He knows that ballot rigging has been a sad but persistent feature of Nigerian elections. This threat is not really directed at ballot box snatchers, but a deliberate attempt to scare people away from the polls. I call on all Nigerians not to be deterred or scared away from the polls.”