The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari has called on women voters in the Northeast to take care of their permanent voter’s cards (PVCs) and wait for their votes to be counted after casting their votes come February 16.
She said their votes are very important and that they should ensure that they vote for All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates and wait for it to be counted.
She stated this in Bauchi yesterday at the one-day Northeast Town Hall meeting of Women and Youth of the APC held at the Multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall. She therefore called on the youth to eschew violence during the elections.
Aisha Buhari who was represented by the wife of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, enumerated the achievements of the present administration citing it as the yardstick to reelect President Muhammadu Buhari.
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“Take care of your PVC so that on the 16th February you can go to the polling booth and vote APC. After voting you must not go home, you must vote and wait until your vote is counted. Also to the youth, there should be no fighting, the mother of the nation says you’re going to the next level and she is waiting to hear news that all is well with you,” she said.
In his remarks the chairman, National Working Committee Women and Youth Presidential Campaign, General Muhammad Buba Marwa (rtd) called on APC Women in the North-East not to use the popular henna so as to be able to cast their votes in the forthcoming general elections.
He said that with henna on their fingers, the card reader machines will not be able to recognise their fingerprints and the ink to be used in the thumbprint will not stick to the thumbs.
He explained that it will be difficult to cast a valid vote for the APC candidates particularly President Muhammadu Buhari if they apply henna.
Buba Marwa who spoke in Hausa, therefore, appealed to the women not to use the henna henceforth until after the general elections so that their votes will count.
He also called on the youth to be law-abiding and peaceful before, during and after the election, though he advised them to ensure that their votes count.
In her address former deputy governor of Plateau State, Pauline Tallen also cautioned the women that the use of henna would not allow them to vote.
