FORMER Deputy National Chairman (South) of the People’s Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, has said he may rescind his decision to relocate from Nigeria.
Recall that Chief George had threatened to exit the country should the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), now the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, wins the 25th February 2023 presidential election.
Speaking during an interview on Arise TV on Thursday, the politician said if Tinubu had won a fair, transparent and credible election, he would have possibly be on his way out of Nigeria, but claimed that Tinubu didn’t win the poll.
He said he is already approaching his 80s and that he could decide to live anywhere in the world if he wants.
The PDP chieftain said he would be retiring from partisan politics after the 11th March governorship and state Houses of Assembly polls.
According to him, “I am almost 80 years old. In fact, I have concluded that I am retiring from partisan politics. I can go and live anywhere and have a quiet end to my life. I want a civilised country. I would have congratulated Tinubu if he had not won through the backdoor. You don’t go through darkness to get light.”
He faulted the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahummud Yakubu for failing to transmit the results of the presidential election electronically, saying that should the results of the gubernatorial and parliament elections wouldn’t be transmitted on the INEC portal, the commission should shift the poll and rectify the issues.
The PDP chieftain urged Lagosians and other Nigerians to come out en masse and exercise their franchise on 11th March and urged security agencies to be on top of the situation during the election.
He said, “this government called APC must wind up in Lagos. And I must tell INEC Chairman if you are not doing it through an electronic process, I will advise him to shift the election.
“I am ashamed to call myself a Nigerian with the manner in which the presidential election was conducted in a very shambolic and unacceptable way. It didn’t make sense of civility. If he (Yakubu) finds out that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS) and electronic transmission were no longer working, the best thing for him to have done was to stop the process. I was miffed.
“There must be no election if Yakubu will conduct the 11th March election the same way it did on 25th February,” he said.