The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) rigged Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State.
In a statement issued on Monday by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP cautioned the Presidency and the APC not to mistake the “rigging” in Ekiti as acceptance of the party by Nigerians.
The party said it is shameful for a government claims to be fighting corruption to gloat over acts of electoral corruption that can truncate the nation’s democratic process.
The party said it was strange that President Muhammadu Buhari could not condemn the emasculation and subversion of the will of Ekiti people and the stealing of another party’s victory by brute force.
It also noted what it described as the unsavoury statements by the Presidency, celebrating the subjugation of Ekiti people as a stamp of “President Buhari’s triumph in the 2019 general elections.”
The statement said: “If, for President Buhari and the APC, the subjugation of the people, as witnessed in Ekiti, amounts to an election, then the nation is headed to a serious crisis, as such will be resisted with all legitimate force available within our laws in the defence of our nation’s democracy.
“The APC and INEC must note that what happened in Ekiti, as a single state, cannot be pulled through in a general election, especially where the people have made up their minds to seek a new president.
“Nigeria is too big and too complex to be subjugated by a single individual or group of individuals, as any attempt to do so will definitely consume the conspirators.
“Moreover, while we are still pursuing the recovery of our stolen mandate in Ekiti, we state in very strong terms that this will be the last time the PDP will, under any circumstance whatsoever, allow itself to be manipulated out at the polls at any level.”
