United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington has said that Nigeria should get the 2019 elections right. He said failure to do so, the country would be disappointing those that looked up to it after the feat recorded in 2015.
The envoy stated this when he paid a visit to the Police Command in Kaduna.
“The State of Kaduna is an important place during this election. I am here to underscore a couple of key ideas,” he stated.
“The first being that these elections are really about Nigerians,
decided by Nigerians under it’s laws which will define the future of
Nigeria.
“The election is also for others who have looked up to Nigeria’s
example of democracy in the past especially if it would be as good as
that of the elections of 2015,” he said.
According to him, it was important for Nigerians to decide on the
election’s credibility like they did in 2015, “so that it’s credit will
be invested in democracy and freedom throughout West Africa and across
the entire World.
“These kind of negative speeches can have negative impacts in the future.
“There are other people who have pointed fingers at those who are
saying the elections would come out wrong, saying the elections can be
right if every citizen of Nigeria act on the understanding that they are
individually responsible for anything they get from the polls.”
The U.S ambassador added that people must take responsibility for
their actions, “first before God, second under the laws of the country,
in the eyes of countrymen and lastly in the eyes of the world.”
