The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Sunday insisted that former deputy senate president, Ibrahim Mantu was
never directed to rig elections on its behalf.
Mantu had admitted that he helped
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rig elections in the past.
Following Mantu’s disclosure, the
All Progressives Congress (APC) called on the PDP to confess its sins against
the country.
Reacting, PDP, in a statement by
its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Mantu’s reported confession was
personal to him and had nothing to do with the party.
The former ruling party stressed
that it has never directed any of its members to rig election on its behalf at
any point since the party’s formation.
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The statement reads, “Senator
Mantu spoke about his personal activities and tendencies in the elections where
he participated. The PDP has never directed or had any pact with him to rig
election on its behalf. Never!
“Individuals run their elections
on the platform of political parties once they emerge as candidates. In the
PDP, candidates are issued with the party’s Code of Conduct containing the
basic rules of electioneering engagements.
“There is nowhere in this rules
of engagement where candidates or party members are directed to rig elections
on behalf of the party. If any member’s conduct transgressed these basic rules
of engagement, that individual did not act on behalf of the PDP, and as such
the party cannot be vicariously held responsible.
“It will therefore be misplaced
for anybody, including the APC, to surmise that Senator Mantu, in the said
confession of rigging, acted on behalf of the PDP.
“After all, in 2007, Senator
Mantu lost his own senatorial election. What, then, happened to his rigging
machinery, if he could not deliver himself.
“We urge the APC to manage its
manifest failures in party administration as well as its incompetent,
lack-lustre and wobbling governance which has grounded the nation’s economy and
brought hunger and starvation to our people.”
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