The United States
Government has said that it will not take side in the Nigeria’s 2019 general
election, saying it wants the winner to be elected in a free and fair contest.
“And
we will do all we can to assist Nigeria’s government”, Counselor for Public Affairs,
US Embassy, Aruba Amirthanayagam, said in Minna, Niger State yesterday when he
visited the Executive Director of Prestige FM Radio, Zubair Idris.
He urged the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to replicate its 2015
performance in the country’s next year’s general elections.
He
described the 2015 elections as generally acknowledged as free, fair and
transparent.
“The
United States expects that the 2019 general elections will be free and
transparent. I think we should repeat the success we had in the last election
because we have had elections in some parts of Africa that have not gone well.
What we got in 2015 was great for Nigeria and for the rest of Africa and other
developing countries “ he said.
Asked
to comment on the statement credited to President Donald Trump that Nigeria’s
President Muhammadu Buhari was “lifeless “ when he paid a visit to White House
recently, the counselor said: “We have no specific comment on that, a newspaper
published it the paper should comment on it”.
The
counselor said there was impunity in Nigeria which, according to him, “is a
threat to democracy”.
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