Buhari’s Choice of Punishment for Ballot Snatchers Is CONSTITUTIONAL – Keyamo

Buhari’s Choice of Punishment for Ballot Snatchers Is CONSTITUTIONAL – Keyamo.

The Director, Strategic Communications for Buhari’s 2019 presidential campaigns , Barrister Festus Keyamo has made it clear while featuring on a TV programme alongside with Senator Dino Melaye,  said Buhari’s call for the military to deal ruthlessly with ballot snatchers is constitutional.

Sen. Melaye representing Kogi West made the description on yesterday when he featured alongside Keyamo,  the presidential spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign team, on a programme on Channels Television programme : The Verdict.

The duo had a heated argument attacking and defending Mr Buhari’s choice of punishment on ballot box snatchers.

The president had declared extra-judicial killings for those who might want to disrupt the electoral will of Nigerians in the rescheduled general election expected to come up this weekend. 

The President said he has ordered security operatives to ruthlessly deal with ballot snatchers at the scene of the crime without recourse to court trial as stipulated in the constitution.

Melaye, he said Nigerians are tired of the incumbent leader and has chosen Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as their next president to lead this nation for the next four years. He also said the opposition party will reclaim states it had lost in the 2015 general elections.

For the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who claimed that the president’s choice of punishment on ballot snatchers is constitutional, the likes of  Bukola Saraki, Senate President and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso among others who had left the All Progressive Congress (APC) might have made minor contributions but that did not win the election for his principal.

Keyamu  said plus or minus, the party has also received the likes of  Akpabio, Uduaghan, Orji Kalu, Ken Nnamani among others 

Immediately Keyamu  mentioned the name of the former Akwa Ibom governor, the lawmaker who interjected asked him “Who is Akpabio?”

“These are political pensioners,” Melaye said 

“You called Akpabio a political pensioner? Keyamo asked as the lawmaker restated his earlier comment saying the former governor was not just a political pensioner but “a big one.”