The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) that it will henceforth vehemently dismantle its rigging machinery in future elections, beginning with the Osun governorship election next month.

The party says that now that it has become manifest to Nigerians and all parties that the APC is only interested in rigging elections brazenly, it will henceforth contend with APC, head to head, means to means, scheme to scheme, shenanigan for shenanigan, in all ramifications and magnitude, to discomfit them in all coming elections in the country.

The PDP said it has thoroughly reviewed all infractions, barefaced suppression, unleashing of violence and unabashed use of security forces and compromised electoral officers to rig elections against it since the assumption of office of President Muhammadu Buhari and vowed to never again allow the APC and its Federal Government to continue to use foul means to usurp power as it has done in the past and merely ask the PDP to go to court. Never!

The PDP has particularly reviewed the rigging of Edo state governorship election in 2016, the blatant rigging of the July 14, 2018 Ekiti state governorship election and the last Saturday’s federal constituency bye-elections in Bauchi, Katsina and Kogi states.

The review shows that the PDP won in all the elections but was viciously manipulated out by the APC- controlled Federal Government through the instrumentality of violence against PDP agents and supporters, vote buying, use of thugs, ballot snatching, harassment, arrests, maiming and even killing of PDP supporters in addition to use of compromised electoral officers to cancel votes belonging to the PDP, alter results from polling centers and then return APC candidates as winners.

Furthermore, the PDP takes very strong consideration of the open boasts and chest-thumping by officials of the Buhari Presidency and the APC, particularly on their rigging of the Ekiti governorship and the federal bye-elections in Bauchi, Katsina and Kogi states, where APC thugs were allowed to freely use weapons against PDP supporters.

This is in addition to the unholy convergence of APC governors and security goons in constituencies where elections are held to supervise the free distribution of funds to buy votes, bribe electoral officers and openly intimidate the people.

The PDP therefore resolves that in as much as it remains a law abiding political party, conducting its affairs strictly within the ambit of our nation’s electoral laws; the party will henceforth directly and physically confront and resist the desperate and greedy power grabbers from always having a field day in seizing our democratic institutions and circumventing the rules during elections.

Consequently, the PDP directs all its state governors, officials at state and zonal chapters, national and state assembly members and all other elected leaders at all levels to get ready to move into Osun state and provide all support necessary and germane in all the nooks and crannies of Osun state in the forthcoming election.

Similarly, the PDP directs all its presidential aspirants to move all their political machinery into Osun State within this period, as well as get prepared to physically participate in the election process.

Our insistence as a party is for a level playing ground, a free, fair and credible electoral process, where all votes will count just as our party provided for General Buhari in 2015, that enabled him to be elected as president.

However, we will not accept our respect for democratic tenets to be taken as a mark of cowardice or weakness.

Finally, the PDP raises this as a wake-up call to all lovers of democracy across our nation to rise in this spirit to safeguard our democracy from all anti-democratic and oppressive forces represented by the APC and the Buhari Presidency.

Easy oooo

Some thing they cannot do in Ondo and Ekiti guber election and even the most recent Bye elections across the country. They can never do more than what the Cock does when Hawk carries and fly away with his chick.

The legacy of one man one vote introduced by the Jonathan government have been massively destroyed by the desperate APC government under the leadership of buhari yet he claims to be fighting corruption.

Is it not a shame that under the buhari government Nigerians are fast loosing hope in the electoral umpire conducting a credible election.

Talk talk act don't talk

magoo10:
The legacy of one man one vote introduced by the Jonathan government have been massively destroyed by the desperate APC government under the leadership of buhari yet he claims to be fighting corruption.

Is it not a shame that under the buhari government Nigerians are fast loosing hope in the electoral umpire conducting a credible election.

I hate it when people say what the dont or know what to say but decided to lie.
I have been active in the past two general elections in Nigeria, in fact in 2011 i left the INEC Office Owerri (owerri municipal LG headquarters) this is the coalition centre for Owerri municipal by 4am, i was APGA Party Agent for world bank so i was on field.
In 2015 i was at Obowo LGA for all the elections.
In this two occasions i was at the field of play and i witnessed all that happened vote buying was a great tool for most people who won the elections and it was carried out by all major political parties.
The amount of intimidation the opposition faced from the National security officer on the first election of 2015 was second to none, the intimidation collapsed immediately GEJ lost his re-election.
I stand only for the truth, nothing has changed in the Nigerian political tactics, there was nothing like one man one vote in GEJ regime aswell it is all about the best rigger.
Let us talk about Rivers State where i lived then, was there anything like voting?

Let us all stop all this and come out with one voice go to our rural villages and educate them, telling them what will happen if they sale there votes for porridge. Our security agencies should be neutral when it come to election matters.

No political party is different in Nigeria all of them only waste there millions looking for how to rig. To all political parties election is a do die affair, i am not speaking from what someone told me, i am speaking from what i witnesed.
I will write about all i have witnessed and the ones i am to see in my book because i will be among those that will change the dynamis of Nigerian politics (the reform we want to see). 2019 i will be in field again but i might choose North or West this time.

NOC1:


I hate it when people say what the dont or know what to say but decided to lie.

or you hate it when people say the truth . have you heard buhari preaching of one man one vote if truly he is sincere? have you even heard buhari telling Nigerians to go get their PVC? No because he doesn't believe in all that.

You have written long epistle just to tell lies ,in 2015 Jonathan did not rig votes in owerri but the APC did under rochas okorocha .

A man who sings like a parrot bird claiming to be fighting corruption and reforming the electoral processes cannot be caught with massive vote buying and the use of security operatives to aid rigging of elections.
For the APC elections is a do or die affair and they are encouraging others to do same.

magoo10:
The legacy of one man one vote introduced by the Jonathan government have been massively destroyed by the desperate APC government under the leadership of buhari yet he claims to be fighting corruption.

Is it not a shame that under the buhari government Nigerians are fast loosing hope in the electoral umpire conducting a credible election.

lies..

FOLYKAZE:
Some thing they cannot do in Ondo and Ekiti guber election and even the most recent Bye elections across the country. They can never do more than what the Cock does when Hawk carries and fly away with his chick.

They didn't do then but can certainly do! It is time to start doing from Osun.

tuniski:


They didn't do then but can certainly do! It is time to start doing from Osun.

Me and you know already that apc have won osun

PDP should go to China and make a copy of the machine, maybe they can win with a billion votes then INEC will have no option but to declare their candidates winner

senatordave1:

Me and you know already that apc have won osun

but osun state government of apc is owing salaries for months and the only state paying half month salaries ,how do you think APC will win if not by massive rigging and vote buying?

DDeliverer:
Oshiomole is a known rigger na....You no suppose do gentleman follow person like oshiomole. You face him fire for fire, rigging for rigging, gun for gun, blow for blow.

Oshiomole that carried them kabaka and the rest agbero from Edo to Ekiti? Mtcheeew. PDP never ready!

Why didnt Tony Aneni-Mr Fix It contain him in Edo State?

lol PDP

Perhaps its also time for your bigwigs to be stopped from entering Osun State, as you did against APC Chieftains in Ekiti in 2014.

Karma is real!

magoo10:
but osun state government of apc is owing salaries for months and the only state paying half month salaries ,how do you think APC will win if not by massive rigging and vote buying?

So the only measure of good governance to you, is by paying salaries? ipob yoots and warped logic!

NgeneUkwenu:


So the only measure of good governance to you, is by paying salaries? ipob yoots and warped logic!

not just being unable to pay salaries but paying half month salaries. What kind of a leader does that? That is bad governance personified.
A very big shame to all of you

senatordave1:

Me and you know already that apc have won osun

How?
With all the defections hitting APC in osun. Oh I remember your usual line: Fayose lost cos he owed salariies
Abegi is Aregbe not owing?

- How was your job interview yesterday?
- Well, I entered the office, found a man sitting on a large black leather chair with feet resting on the table.... He pointed towards his laptop, asked me to take it and go outside, then come back and try to sell him the laptop...he thought himself as actor Leonardo Di Caprio of "The Wolf of Wall Street" movie..
So I took the laptop and left.

- Left...!! Then what?
- Nothing! 30 minutes later he called me up, begging me to return his laptop to him 'cause all his work and important documents were in it. So I asked him: "Will you buy it??"

PDP saying APC rigs and will destroy them = Endtime.

These are really interesting times! Nigerians king of rigging (PDP) if crying foe about APC's rigging!

APC must really be dealing with these guys, chai!!

tuniski:

How?
With all the defections hitting APC in osun. Oh I remember your usual line: Fayose lost cos he owed salariies
Abegi is Aregbe not owing?

It is not about defections oga.the defections are not to pdp moreover.the loss of omisore and the anger of ogunbiyi will do more damage to pdp.to cut it short,lets bet on the election so that i can silence you forever.

NgeneUkwenu:


So the only measure of good governance to you, is by paying salaries? ipob yoots and warped logic!

Awon Satanic gang.

APC used Fayose's salary arrears in Ekiti as a fulcrum to blatantly rig themselves to a phony victory.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, it is not difficult for you to show your true colours. ...

magoo10:
but osun state government of apc is owing salaries for months and the only state paying half month salaries ,how do you think APC will win if not by massive rigging and vote buying?

I agree but unlike the case of ekiti,osun receives less than a billion naira monthly.even an angel wont be able to pay with such a paltry amount.again,aregbe has infastructure on ground to showcase which osun people have seen and appreciated.aregbe has been transparent with the people.how will adeleke pay full salary with less than a billion?

senatordave1:

I agree but unlike the case of ekiti,osun receives less than a billion naira monthly.even an angel wont be able to pay with such a paltry amount.again,aregbe has infastructure on ground to showcase which osun people have seen and appreciated.aregbe has been transparent with the people.how will adeleke pay full salary with less than a billion?

making excuse for aregbes inability to pay salaries cannot be accepted . APC failed and should do the honourable by not rigging the elections .

hohoh!!!

Gun for gun.. Thug for thug.. Rigging for rigging etc. APC is a very useless party

Pdp the father of rigging,what goes around comes around.

Good one from PDP
APCs new method of rigging must be dismantled before it destroys our democracy

Hmmm
PDP must really be dazed at the moment

who win na him rig pass

magoo10:
The legacy of one man one vote introduced by the Jonathan government have been massively destroyed by the desperate APC government under the leadership of buhari yet he claims to be fighting corruption.

Is it not a shame that under the buhari government Nigerians are fast loosing hope in the electoral umpire conducting a credible election.

fighting corruption my foot, I told Nigerians from beginning that buhari is the most corrupt politician ever.

everything about him is corrupt
starting from 1979 -1983 he has question to Answer