By Moh Bello Habib
Zaria
Chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kaduna state, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has predicted dangerous high-level of expectations on the Nigerians in the forthcoming 2015 election.
He stated this yesterday at a public lecture entitled “The Role of the Citizenry in Ensuring Free and Fair General Election in 2015 in Nigeria and it’s Implication for National Cohesion” organised by the Faculty of Art, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria.
“Those who are favoured by the current regime will work for and expect that it will survive the elections and do more of the same,” he said.
He said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would face the most daunting challenges if President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) were the Presidential candidates in 2015.
Baba-Ahmed said it would be difficult to see how Jonathan would win in an election did not involve substantial influence on the credibility and integrity of INEC, adding that the candidature of General Buhari might serve to keep INEC a bit more on its toes.
He said it was only the APC that would bring the desired change Nigerians needed.
Earlier, the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Mohammed Lawal Amin, said the lecture was organised to sensitise the citizens on their role in ensuring credible, free and fair election come 2015.
He recalled that last year a similar lecture was also organised by his Faculty all aimed at ensuring credible election.
Amin, therefore, urged the participants to put into practice what they learnt in the lecture, saying that it was scholarly.
