2015 General Elections Must Hold ––Speaker Tambuwal Warns

Friday, September 19, 2014

Speaker, House of Reps, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has insisted that Nigeria’s general elections must hold in 2015 despite fears in some quarters over the possibility of conducting peaceful elections amidst the insurgency in the country’s north east.

Tambuwal’s statement comes on the heels of controversies generated by the “election is not on the table now” statement credited to Senate President David Mark.

“I firmly believe we can go into elections in 2015; elections in 2015 should be held.What we need to do is to address insurgency before the elections and encourage soldiers to do the needful,” Tambuwal stated at a meeting with a delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) at the National Assembly.

Section 180(3) of the 1999 Constitution says if the country is at war, there will not be elections. Many have called for a declaration of war on Boko Haram to check the sect in the North East.