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You’re Products of Manipulati­on, PDP Replies APC Govs over Imo

- Chuks Okocha

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the reason governors of the ruling All Progressiv­es Congress (APC) are standing alone in defence of the widely condemned judgment of the Supreme Court on Imo State governorsh­ip election was because many of them are products of huge electoral manipulati­ons.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiy­an, said the APC governors’ attempt at cheap blackmail would never stop the PDP and millions of Nigerians from demanding for a review and reversal of the judgment in which the Supreme Court allegedly manufactur­ed and donated fictitious votes to name a fourth position candidate and declared him as the winner of the March 9, 2019 governorsh­ip election in Imo State.

PDP added that it’s rather not surprising to many that the APC governors could allow themselves to be enlisted to haul insults at the PDP with a view to blur and distort the grave miscarriag­e of justice because many of them are products and beneficiar­ies of electoral manipulati­ons.

“The APC governors’ part in this script appears very glaring. Of course, who else will the flies support except a person with open smelly sore?

“This is also why APC governors are encouragin­g their party to engage in underhand measures and supporting injustice instead of following democratic processes.

“In comparing the Imo State judgment to that of governorsh­ip elections in Zamfara and Rivers states, the APC governors forgot that Nigerians are abreast of the facts,” PDP said.

The opposition noted that governors of the ruling party deliberate­ly veiled the fact that they lost Zamfara and Rivers states as a result of their internal wrangling over their failure to conduct a credible primary, which voided their votes and left the party with the second highest number of votes as the winner.

PDP described this as the difference from the judgement of Imo State where fictitious votes were allegedly manufactur­ed by the Supreme Court and donated to the APC to lift it from the fourth position to become winner.

PDP said in making their plea for the rejected judgement, the APC governors should explain to Nigerians how the Supreme Court, in its bid to award votes to APC, ended up declaring a total valid votes of 950,952 votes above the Independen­t National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s official 823,743 total number of accredited voters for the election.

 ??  ?? L-R: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; and wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, during the governor’s courtesy visit to the Oba’s Palace, as part of activities for a Townhall meeting with Edo indigenes resident in Lagos State… yesterday
L-R: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; and wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, during the governor’s courtesy visit to the Oba’s Palace, as part of activities for a Townhall meeting with Edo indigenes resident in Lagos State… yesterday

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