The comments credited to Olisa Metuh, Natinal Publicity Secretary of the PDP, as reported in the media, to the effect that that APC knocks INEC I when it is losing and vice versa is diversionary in the face of glaring facts of the conduct of Anambra elections known to the whole world, but PDP who is part of the problem.
In fact it is a manifestation of sycophancy to please Metuh’s superiors in PDP caught in an intricate web of anti-party conducts and undue influence over INEC.

The mere fact that the position of the PDP, as expressed by Metuh contradicts that expressed by the PDP candidate in Anambra guber elections, Mr Toy Nwoye, who has called for the total cancellation of the elections, is indicative that the National body of PDP lead by the president may not have been behind fully behind their candidate.

Gladly, Metuh illustrated with Ondo State where his party fielded a candidate for the Governorship elections, but instead supported the Labour Party Candidate Gov Olusegun Mimiko through the back door.

He went further to claim that APC is coming third in Anambra State elections as it did in Ondo State.

Without meandering, the principle of PDP support which short-changes its candidates is the same for Anambra as it was in Ondo State, and the issue of coming third, fourth, fifth of sixth in a largely discredited election does not talke away the locus standi of a focused, people-oriented political party with vested interest to demand as APC and its candidate are doing, that all voters in Anambra State who showed up to vote on Saturday November 16, 2013, but be allowed to vote in a free and fair election on a clean slate.

The needless political point that Metuh and his party –at the national level-wish to score is that only those who have been awarded and undeserved first and second position, in an election in which all indices point to a total failure designed by the powers that be at the highest level can speak up on whether people should be allowed to vote or not.

We vehemently disgree!

The admission of INEC that its officers have colluded in election rigging , the confirmation of all observers ,local and foreign that elections was a failure , the testimonies further emerging from the elections beyond the original confirmed flashpoints to all 21 local government areas means that the rigging plan which PDP used to short-change Ghali Umar Na’Aba in 2003 in favour of a ANPP candidate and Ifeanyi Ararume ,Imo State in favour of Ohakim, a PPA candidate in Imo State’s 2007 elections, may or may not necessarily work for the ‘messed-up’ (In Prof Attahiru Jega’s words) elections in Anambra State.

However, while the issue of sincere support by the PDP a the national level to their own in the states remains their internal affair, what is unimpeachable is that APC stands for the principle of one, man one vote, which must count and all Anambra State citizens who are qualified to vote must be allowed to vote in a clean election for the results to be acceptable.

Hence, it remains unacceptable to accommodate a widespread manipulation using INEC officials, security agents, real and fake, which employed every possible vice found in Anambra State elections of the past to blur the future of Anambra youth, even if Metuh sell out his state on partisan considerations.

It becomes laughable when Metuh opens a new vista to the rigging plan of PDP when it chose to use security agents to arrest election observers in a neighbouring state to Anambra, only to label them ‘APC thugs’. Yet no charge is being pressed on these wonderful ‘tag-wearing thugs’, with large number of highly educated women in their ranks.

By towing this part, Metuh is the one trying, to becloud a serious issue of illegitimacy of government to be thrown up in the 2004-2018 gubernatorial tenure to naked propaganda, without content.

Were it not so, Metuh should have dealt directly with the issues of the INEC-assisted rigging in a n Obosi hotel where Policemen and the Army declined to make an arrest; the withdrawal of result sheets by INEC officials where they had ‘mistakenly’ supplied giving way for results to be recorded on rough sheets o cardboard paper; the use of fake policemen and NYSC members, the arrival of materials in overwhelming number of pre=determined local government areas at 2.00pm incomplete; the orchestrated strike by NYSC Presiding officers on elections day; the placement of materials on election tables unmanned, and them the refusal of INEC officials o answer to the helpline, and taken a discernable position ,so that Anambra State will recognise its enemies.

To conclude, we note that silence is better than the statement so far credited to PDP and Metuh on the Anambra State elections so far, even in the interest of his party.

Once again we restate our resolve to rescue the rights of Anambra State people to freely and fairly choose their leader and run their state without being controlled remotely form Abuja or elsewhere, a migraine that was all but solved in 2003, until retrogressive elements, seeking to serve only the interest of powers outside the state regained control.

APC without urges the good people pf Anambra State, Nigeria and the worlds to discountenance the mud-slinging from Metuh’s PDP, and pay closer attention to the comprehensive report of putrid manipulation of elections in all 21 local government areas of the state and the insulting signpost of this happening on the birthday of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, whose great sacrifices for democracy in Nigeria is unparalleled.

For: ALL PROGRSIVE GRAND ALLIANCE (APC), ANAMBRA STATE CHAPTER

Okelo Madukaife

Interim State Publicity Secretary