PDP has blasted Ganduje over comments on Ondo and Anambra polls.
NaijaOnPoint Nigeria reports that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has tackled the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, that the party will use the Edo State template to win the Ondo and Anambra States governorship elections.
The opposition party, through its Publicity Secretary, Mr Kennedy Peretei, said Ganduje’s statement about Edo State’s template showed that the ruling APC manipulated the Edo State election using the instrumentality of the state.
Peretei said what was held in Edo State on September 21 under the supervision of Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was not an election but a sham that has dragged the country back to the inglorious era of daylight robbery of the electoral process.
According to him, the PDP believed that most Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora are beginning to lose hope in our hard-earned democracy when major players like Ganduje openly allude to the fact that their votes will not count as long as men like him hold influential positions.
His words “Ganduje’s vituperations were the surest confirmation that the election was rigged. Instead of being sober for subverting the will of the people, Ganduje robbed salt on injury by saying that his party intends to control all five South Eastern States.
“Perhaps it is important to remind Ganduje that Ondo State is not one of the states where the people can be intimidated or cowed. Our people are very enlightened and resilient. When the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) attempted to subvert the will of the people, the people proved to the Shagari government that, they were different.
“That tradition has not died. Besides, the present democratic dispensation in which he is a beneficiary was watered with the blood of many Nigerians. Ganduje shouldn’t go down into oblivion as one of its undertakers.
“Our party salutes the courage of the Edo State people for their remarkable performance in that election, despite INEC’s flagrant disobedience of their own rules. Everyone knows that most of the results announced at the State Collation Center were fabricated, as the figures were different from those uploaded into the INEC Irev portal.
“The people of Edo State could never have elected a man who promised to bring “Insecurity to Edo State. Let Ganduje first give the ‘Edo Treatment ” to his people in Kano State, where he was humiliated by a relatively unknown New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in last year’s Gubernatorial election.”