Former governor of Sokoto State and presidential aspirant under the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has urged traditional rulers and politicians in the North to prevail on their subjects to stop the orgy of violence currently rocking that part of the country.
Bafarawa, in a press statement personally signed by him and made available to LEADERSHIP in Lagos yesterday, said that though the election was not perfect, a winner had already being declared.
He said the three Northerners who took part in the presidential election were men of honour and integrity whose legacies could not be associated with such mindless violence. .
Bafarawa said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan the winner of the election although the process was not without problems.
“This election was not perfect. From the party primaries, registration and election proper, there were problems. However, we must commend Prof. Attahiru Jega and his team in INEC; they made the best out of a flawed system. Violence will not correct the failings in our electoral system and the failures of government,” he said.
He implored whoever felt aggrieved at the outcome of the election to go to court.
“Our country is better served where we employ legal and constitutional means to express our disagreements. The resort to violence is not only archaic, it dehumanizes us. This is not the dream our fathers had for us. Certainly, it is not Allah’s wish that we kill, burn, and maim each other anytime we have a minor disagreement,”’ he said.
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