2019 elections fraught with flaws — S’West PDP elders

The South-West Elders’ Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, rose from a meeting backing the move by the leadership of the party to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential elections.

They said the recent elections “were fraught with screaming flaws, deliberate sabotage, treachery and outright banditry.”

The meeting, convened by the former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, deliberated on the state of the nation especially the outcome of the 2019 elections.

Those who were part of the meeting included Chief George, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and Dr. Remi Akitoye, both former PDP national secretary; former Lagos deputy governor, Senator Kofo Bucknor Akerele; Chief Joju Fadairo; Dr. Ademola Dominic; and Capt. Tunji Shelle, among others

In a 15-point communique read by Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosumu, the elders noted that the “present electoral processes wherein result sheets are physically carried across the nation are absolutely primitive and apparently susceptible to all kinds of distortions.”

According to them, “The apparent distortions in Yobe, Borno, Rivers, Lagos, Adamawa, Kano and several other states diminish the purity of a fledgling democratic state,” they said.

Meanwhile, the caucus enjoined the PDP national leadership to start addressing the wrongs noticed in the last elections, saying imposition of some “fly-by night candidates on the states” provoked electoral failures for the party in the South-West.