Don’t use force to interfere with INEC – U.S warns vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
BOILER-PIPE: Comments By Nwafor Sunday The United States Ambassador, W. Stuart Symington, Monday, warned political parties who participated in the ongoing presidential and national assembly elections, to refrain from using force and violence to interfere with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Disclosing this in a statement, Symington charged political parties to convince those who support them to equally refrain from using force.
Read the full statement below: “I congratulate the tens of millions of Nigerians who stood patiently in long lines to vote this week and the hundreds of thousands who worked together with INEC to conduct the elections. “As noted by many observer groups in their preliminary reports, this election was predominantly peaceful, and it was proof of the Nigerian people’s resolute commitment to choose their leaders. “The peaceful achievement of millions was shadowed by the violence of a few.
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