The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, on Monday, reacted to the reelection of Rotimi Akeredolu as Governor of
Ondo State.
PDP said it can’t congratulate
Akeredolu due to the appeal by the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker
Chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni.
The opposition party’s National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Buni is begging for endorsement of
while the structure that produced Akeredolu was faulty.
Ologbondiyan stated this in a
statement he signed titled: “Why we can’t congratulate APC yet.”
According to the PDP spokesman:
“The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to a press
conference by the chairman of the contentious National Caretaker Committee of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor Mai Mala Buni, wherein he begged
the PDP to congratulate the APC over the outcome of the October 10, Ondo
governorship election.
“It is indeed ludicrous and
completely absurd that Governor Buni is begging for endorsement of the election
in spite of his awareness that the internal mechanism that produced his party’s
candidate, as presided over by him, was faulty.
“Nigerians already know that the
emergence of Governor Mai Buni in the national leadership of his party is a
subject of litigation and as such his nomination of any candidate for the
election is seen, even among his party members, as a nullity until the court
says otherwise.
“It will therefore be pathetic
for Governor Mai Buni to attempt to use the PDP to build something on the
nothingness of his position in his party. The PDP is too structured as a party
to be used by anybody, under any guise, in that regard.
“Perhaps, Governor Buni is not
aware that information available in the public space and to the PDP showed that
a very top-level management official of the NNPC, through a northwest governor
elected on the
platform of the APC, diverted
huge amounts of money, in dollar, from our nation oil resources to fund vote
buying in the Ondo election.
“Instead of begging the PDP for
congratulatory message, Governor Buni should rather speak to this disturbing
stealing of oil money to fund his party’s vote buying at the expense of
Nigerians who are bearing the brunt of increase in the pump price of fuel and
corruption in the oil sector under the APC.
“While our party will, in due
course, make its official position on the outcome of the Ondo election known,
the PDP urges President Muhammadu Buhari to take steps that will accelerate the
amendment of the Electoral Act, which was stalled following his failure to sign
the amended Act of the National Assembly in 2019.”
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