The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Monday dismissed claim by the All Progressives Congress, APC, over
alleged vote-buying during its just concluded presidential primary election.
PDP said the “uneasiness,
apprehension and nervousness in the drowning Buhari Presidency and the fading
All Progressives Congress (APC) since
the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as Presidential candidate of the PDP” was
noted.
A statement by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said such “nervousness in the
deflated party has led to a renewed attempt at smear campaign with spurious
allegations against our Presidential candidate; a defeatist approach that shows
that the APC and the Buhari Presidency are afraid of the Atiku candidacy and
have reached their wits end, well ahead of the elections.
“The claims, by APC, of
vote-buying at our national convention, is therefore, not only false but
completely unfounded and symptomatic of a party that has totally lost bearing
and now engaged in rumour mongering.
“For us as a party, such
allegation from the APC is not unexpected given that it had tried everything
possible to scuttle our national convention and Presidential primary but woefully
failed, hence the desperation to engage in attempt to discredit the process
that has been acclaimed as the best in our political history.
“Unlike the APC that has an
unpopular Presidential candidate, who has failed in governance, foisted on it
without an election, the whole world watched with excitement as 12 aspirants
contested the PDP Presidential primary, where delegates drawn from respected
Nigerians across the country, freely voted for a candidate of their choice.
“To the amusement of Nigerians,
the APC conducted a non-contested convention in which it declared President
Buhari as “winner” with over 14 million fictitious votes.
“In their desperation, they
forgot that “Winning” as a word connotes contest. Strangely, the APC declared a
candidate as having won when there was never a contest – a charade by a
deceptive party with duplicitous leaders!
“While we note that the APC is
suffering from a pre-defeat trauma, we caution this fading party and its
presidential candidate, who had failed our nation, to steer clear of our party
and get ready for issue-based campaign ahead of the 2019 elections.
“It is instructive to state that
their attempt at smear campaign against our candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
will fail as Nigerians are interested only in the candidate that can make a
turn around of the ugly situation Buhari Presidency has sunk us.”
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