PDP Scolds Buhari Over Comments on Use of Security To Muscle Elections
BY GRACE ANYANWU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as a sad commentary for President Muhammadu Buhari, who won election on a free ballot in 2015 to contemplate or bemoan how he could have used security agencies to undermine the integrity of the electoral process in the country.
The party said that Nigerians are aware that in the 2019 presidential election, such despotic and oppressive tactics were deployed to circumvent the electoral process and the wishes of Nigerians.
It said that as a party, it hope the President comment is not a foreplay of what the APC and Buhari Presidency is planning to exert in the Edo and Ondo governorship elections scheduled for September and October 2020 respectively.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan said that Nigerians witnessed the overrunning of Ekiti, Osun, Kogi, Bayelsa and Kano States by the APC using compromised security officials and thugs.
According to the PDP: “In Kogi State, a police helicopter was used to disperse the electorate, who were on the queue to perform their civic duties on Election Day.
“Mrs. Salome Abuh, a frontline woman leader of the PDP, was burnt to death by members of the APC in the Kogi State election. Till date, no member of Mr. President’s party has been interrogated or arraigned for that murder.
“Contrary to Mr. President’s expressed concerns, Nigerians have never witnessed the level of electoral impunity seen under his administration.
“Nigeria is standing before the global community on Edo and Ondo governorship elections and the President must advise his party to allow INEC to carry out its responsibilities without interferences,” PDP states.
