A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Adeniyi Akintola on Monday said the Peoples Democratic Party never won any election in the South-West states of the country, hence the party’s leadership should stop blaming the judiciary for the PDP loss of Ondo, Ekiti and Osun states.

The PDP 2007 victories had been reversed in the three states with the Labour Party now in charge of Ondo State while the Action Congress of Nigeria is in power in Osun and Ekiti.

In an interview with journalists in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on Monday, Akintola said anybody who blamed the judiciary for the fate of the PDP in the South-West “must either be mischievous, ignorant or down-right fool.”

“The truth of the matter is that the PDP never won election in the South-West with the confessions of both former President Olusegun Obasanjo and one of the governors in the zone at different fora.

“Everybody knew that there was no election in the South-West in 2007, but that Obasanjo wanted everybody in the mainstream by-fire-by-force and anybody blaming the judiciary must be up to something else, because, the judiciary is there, holding the scale, the balance for everybody,” he said.

President Goodluck Jonathan had at a parley with South West delegates in Ibadan on Sunday regretted the party’s gradual loss of grip in the zone.

The President therefore called on party leaders to guard their loins and ensure that the party’s lost glory was restored.

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When will our votes start counting in this country? When there is free and fair election , election tribunals will have less work to do.
IBB and OBJ had the opportunities to leave a legacy of conducting a free and fair election, but they all bungled it.