Barrister Chuks Nwachukwu, a Principal Partner at Indemnity Partners was the Presidential candidate of All Grassroots Alliance, AGA, in the February 23, 2019 general elections.
In this interview with OpenLife Senior Staff Writer, Isaac Ngumah, he lays bare his experience at the poll and other national issues
What is your assessment of the 2019 general election that have come and gone?
In the election, there were determined efforts by Nigerians to bring a change on the leadership of the country but that effort has been upstaged by the electioneering process.
Though I was a presidential candidate, I did step down two weeks to the time to support Atiku for this purpose of a coalition of Nigerians who are informed, who are enlightened, who really cared about this country more than they cared about themselves
So, those of us that supported Atiku care about the country and we care about the future of the country.
Now that the elections have come and gone and a winner has been declared, do you see a victory for Nigeria?
I don’t at all, Nigeria was defeated in the election. This is a country that was struggling to put itself up and it was pushed down.
In fact it was not Atiku that was defeated, it was Nigeria that was defeated because I participated as a presidential candidate.
Nigeria was defeated by enemies of Nigeria who care only for themselves.
Those who deceived the people, those of them that supported the southeast are benefiting from ignorance, raising up issues to raise the ignorant motions of the people and avoiding the main issues of underdevelopment and poverty.
As a presidential candidate of your party have you sent congratulatory message to the President.
I have not written him personally but I have on my own blog, in my own platform on social media, congratulated him. I congratulated him that he won in the opinion of INEC. That victory is being questioned in the court as we speak.
I don’t have anything personally against Buhari but I see him benefiting from ignorance, I see him benefiting from deceit and I see that he doesn’t have anything good for the nation. It is not that he is malicious against the nation but in some respects I believe he is malicious against the nation like the issues of herdsmen.
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