Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would
resist any attempt by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to derail the peaceful
conduct of the November 21 and December 5 governorship elections in Kogi and
Bayelsa states respectively.
PDP’s
national publicity secretary, Olisa-Metu says APC cannot take over Kogi or
Bayelsa
The party also accused the APC of attempting to use the outcome of the 2015 general elections as a premise to claim victory in the alleged manipulated Borno central senatorial bye election.
“The scandalous resort by the APC to use security
forces to frighten and intimidate voters and electoral officers to sway votes
in its favour, in addition to other ploys made to set the stage for violence in
the process, clearly collaborate the fact that it has already lost its support
base in the country and particularly in the north.
“We are
aware that the APC is already stretching its desperation to Kogi as well as
Bayelsa state where, in the attempt to create tension, unleashed thugs on the
campaign train of Governor Seriake Dickson on Tuesday, an action that is a
clear test-run of their machinery of violence ahead of the
Bayelsa December 5 election.
“Intelligence report available to us shows that
this brazen attack on Governor Dickson was not spontaneous but part of a
well-hatched plot to create an atmosphere of insecurity in the state,
ostensibly to pave way for their violence-driven rigging strategy, including
the deployment of APC controlled security forces to frighten and intimidate
voters as was the case in the Borno bye-election.
“The PDP wishes to state in clear terms that it would
resist any attempt by the APC to derail the peaceful conduct of the November 21
and December 5 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states
respectively. It is on this note that we call on President Muhammadu
Buhari, as the leader of the nation and a huge beneficiary of the credible
election organized by the PDP, to take immediate steps to rein-in his members,
as their actions in Bayelsa state are capable of triggering a resurgence of
militancy in the Niger Delta region.
“Let the APC be amply reminded that Bayelsa and
Kogi states are clear strongholds of the PDP and no amount of intimidation,
threats and use of force will bend the will of the people or detract from their
support for Governors Seriake Dickson and Idris Wada respectively. Moreover, the
people of these states are not in anyway ready or willing to accept any results
that do not, in full measure, reflect their wishes and aspirations at the
polls,” PDP said in a statement made available to our
reporter.
The party said the APC, by such argument, might as
well forget about contesting the December 5 governorship election in
Bayelsa state where the ruling PDP won all contested positions in the 2015
general elections.
Prince Uche Secondus, the acting national chairman
of the PDP, said on Tuesday, November 3, that to eliminate the role of money-bag politicians, the
intention of the party was to make its primary elections zero expensive in
order not to give room for inducing anybody.
The
party, in a communiqué issued in Abuja on Thursday, October 29, after the
confirmation of the ministerial nominees at the Senate plenary session, had
equally raised concerns over what it described as undemocratic attitudes on the
part of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Source: Naij.com
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