A pro-democracy group, Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution (CDNDC), has urged the electorate in Edo to learn from the ordeal of Senator Bola Tinubu in the hands of the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun and vote out the APC in Wednesday’s governorship election.

The group, which has been consistent in raising awareness on the governorship  poll, described the latest statement credited to the APC national leader and former governor of Lagos State as a “timely warning to the good people of Edo state to do away with the APC.”

In a statement yesterday in Abuja signed by its co-convener, Ariyo-Dare Atoye, the group said “the injustice done to Tinubu is a reminder of how the embattled national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, and Governor Adams Oshiomhole conspired and hijacked the APC governorship primary to impose a puppet-candidate.

“We wish to urge the good people of Edo state to do away with the APC in the Heartbeat of the nation on September 28, as this will commence the liberation of Nigerians from the chains of the APC.

“The party is anything but democratic and it will continue to betray the people’s trust like the APC did in the last eight years in Edo State and is also currently doing at the national level.

“We wish to urge the people of Edo state to carefully take note of some very informed lines in the statement from the  Tinubu Media Office and their deep implications for democracy:

“Oyegun’s comportment regarding the Ondo state primary (inclusive of Edo primary) will become the textbook definition of political treachery and malfeasance of the basest order.

“Thus, Oyegun was forced to undertake his desperate fraud in broad daylight in order to salvage the wrong conspiratorially initiated and unconscionably executed in the Ondo APC primary.

“To choke the APC in this manner is to kill the chance for progressive reform for the foreseeable future and Edo state must detach itself from that perilous future.”

The group said that it was happy that Tinubu has now seen the light while in “a gloomy party,” and has also seen how puerile the unconstitutional title of “National Leader of APC” is.

The group, however, said that it was not unlikely that Tinubu may be forced to consider mustering his charisma and sagacity to chart a new political trajectory, stressing that his comment: “I find greater honor and comfort where democracy and fairness are found and respected,” is a pointer in this direction.