PDP Accuses APC Of Planning Chaos In Ekiti

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) of planning chaos in Ekiti State.

 

 

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This was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday night, by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in response to APC’s decision to approach a court of law over the just concluded Ekiti State governorship election where the party’s candidate, Fayemi Kayode, lost to Ayodele Fayose of the PDP.

 

The party in the statement questioned why APC has refused to accept the outcome of the election which was widely described as one of the freest, fairest and most credible elections conducted so far in Nigeria.

  The party pointed out that APC’s court decision was geared towards discrediting the outcome of the poll which their candidate, Governor Kayode had already accepted defeat.

 

Metuh said the party’s decision shows their preference for anarchy and blind homage to negativism as well as the destruction of democratic order.

 

“The APC has once again confirmed that it is nothing but a chaotic organisation, totally averse to democracy and orderliness. It has shown that it is a party of desperate, frustrated and violent individuals promoting a Janjaweed ideology.

 

“This is a party that is fully aware that it was trounced in all the local governments of the state and even lost in the polling units and wards of its campaign Director-General and that of its Deputy National Chairman, yet it is bent at fomenting trouble to disrupt the peace in Ekiti state apparently out of frustration that it did not get the chance to rig the polls” Metuh said.

 

The national publicity secretary also commended the various security operatives that were on ground for the poll.

 

“We restate our commendations to security agencies for the roles they played in maintaining law and order and providing level playing ground for all parties before, during and after the election” he said. “However we wish to alert of an orchestrated plot by the APC to now use the instruments of wild allegations and spurious claims to set the stage to unleash mayhem on Ekiti state using imported armed thugs. We therefore urge Nigerians to note this and hold the APC responsible should there be any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti State”.