2023: ‘Elections will hold’ – Buhari allays fears over third-term agenda

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said his administration has no third term agenda and will do its best to ensure elections hold across the country despite increasing violence.

The President stared this after receiving the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and other electoral commissioners at the State House in Abuja.

INEC facilities across the country have recently come under attack.

In the last four weeks, no fewer than 11 offices of the commission have been either set ablaze or vandalized, the INEC boss. Prof. Yakubu , had earlier informed.

Buhari said,”I received a briefing today from the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on the series of attacks on their facilities nationwide.

“These attacks are totally unacceptable, and we will not allow those behind them to achieve their evil objectives.

“I have assured INEC that we will make available to them everything they need to operate efficiently, so that no one will say we don’t want to go, or that we want a third term. There will be no excuse for failure. We will meet all of INEC’s demands”, the President assured.