The entire world was not only embarrassed but ashamed of what Prof Mahmood Yakubu’s sham called Edo State Governorship Election held on Saturday, 21st September, 2024.
While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Police were yet to clear themselves of partisanship and complicity in the election, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, who flew into Benin with a Police helicopter was gloating in Abuja, that Ondo and Anambra would receive the Edo treatment when Governorship elections hold in these States.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State Chapter believes 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. 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 the 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. It is advisable Ganduje does not 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, in spite of INEC’s flagrant disobedience of their own rules. Everyone knows that, most of the results announced at State Collation Center were fabricated, as the figures were different from those uploaded into 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.
Kennedy Ikantu Peretei.
State Publicity Secretary, PDP, Ondo State.
