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| Senator Smart Adeyemi |
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it will resist the rigging plans of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 16 state governorship election.
The Director General of the APC campaign council, Senator Smart Adeyemi, stated this in Ankpa, on Sunday during the continuation of the APC governorship campaign rally.
Adeyemi said the rejection of Wada/Aro candidacy by its party chieftains has left them with only an option of rigging.
He urged the PDP governors and businessmen not to waste their resources on the opposition.
According to him: “Former governor Ibrahim Idris has showed us that the PDP candidate is not acceptable or sellable. By chasing out the party candidate who went with Oyo State governor to beg at his residence in Abuja, shows clearly there is no hope for the opposition PDP.
“The opposition too are now aware that they have lost it. The only option they are thinking of is to cause mayhem during the election and rig.
“But, we will not allow that. They have done it in the past. Rigging is in their DNA. But, we will vigorously resist any attempt to rig the November 16 governorship election.
“You cannot expect youths, especially those serving in various capacities in this government, to fold their hands and allow electoral malpractice.
“Ninety percent of youths in the state have been empowered by the present administration with some of them unemployed before but are presently meaningfully engaged.
“The youths are familiar with the terrain in the state and their cause is helped by the general acceptance of our candidate, Governor Yahaya Bello.
“Already, their is confusion and in-fighting within the PDP over the N100 million released to them by a South West governor for their flag off campaign. They are financially incapacitated.
“I advised other PDP governors and businessmen not to waste their resources on the PDP candidate; nothing good can come out of that venture.
“We have already subsumed the PDP and will shall consume them soon without violence.”
He said that Bello’s disposition towards bridging the gap of ethnic divides, youths inclusiveness and spread of projects across the three senatorial zones of the state has earned him his reelection.
