By Our Correspondent

Renowned Niger Delta activist Sunny Onuesoke has stated that the life of a Nigerian is superior to any election. The Urhobo born political analyst who made the assertion in a media interaction with news men over the shift of  the general elections at his ultra modern President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Office  in Ovwian Udu Local Government Area of Delta State on Monday February 9^th,2015 also noted that INEC boss Professor Jega has the constitutional right to postpone the  general elections.

Sunny Onuesoke

“In the United Stated and other civilized countries where  we copied democracy from the life of a citizen is valued more than any national activity .More so when the issue at stake has to do with the security of lives. So why should our case be different?” He queried.

Continuing Onuesoke  stated that “The military has stated that it cannot guarantee the lives of electorate in the troubled areas during the earlier scheduled dates of the general elections. The arm of government saddled with the responsibility of security of lives and properties has  said that it cannot guarantee the lives of citizen in the Northern Eastern  states of the country. So it will be wise to yield to their  warning. For if anything goes wrong, it is the same opposition and uninformed Nigerians that will blame INEC for not yielding to their warning”

Commenting on the legality of the elections  shift Onuesoke reasoned that “ What we should be looking at, is whether it was constitutional for Professor Jega to do what he did. And of course he has the constitutional right to postpone the general elections. Moreover the postponement is within  the election time frame. Fortunately the postponement will give more credibility to the general elections as  INEC would  have distributed more Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) to those that have not gotten theirs . For according to INEC at as the time the elections were postponed only about 65% of the PVCs have been distributed”

Reacting to  the insinuations that the poll shift was masterminded by the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), the Delta State PDP chieftain described the insinuations as a cheap blackmail by the opposition as he noted that PDP has more loses to count than the opposition in terms of  campaign adverts or publicity” Nigerians can attest to this fact”

Onuesoke however expressed confidence that his party will sweep the polls in the new dates of the elections both  in Delta State and national levels as he urged well  meaning Nigerians and the international communities to ignore the senseless outbursts of the opposition on the shift of election dates.