Ondo Poll: Real Reason Why We Can’t Congratulate APC Yet , By PDP

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The National Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor Mai Mala Buni, has come under criticism after he asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to congratulate the APC and its candidate, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu(SAN) for winning the October 10, governorship election in Ondo.

While reacting to Buni’s call, the national Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in a statement on Monday, faulted the primary election which produced Governor Rotimi Akeredolu as the APC candidate.

The PDP also reportedly  claimed that Buni -led ledaership  has superintended over a faulty process that led to Akeredolu’s emergence.

The PDP said: “It is indeed ludicrous and completely absurd that Governor Buni is begging for endorsement of the election in spite of his awareness that the internal mechanism that produced his party’s candidate, as presided over by him, was faulty.

“Nigerians already knows that the emergence of Governor Mai Buni in the national leadership of his party is a subject of litigation and as such his nomination of any candidate for the election is seen, even among his party members, as a nullity until the court says otherwise.

“It will therefore be pathetic for Governor Mai Buni to attempt to use the PDP to build something on the nothingness of his position in his party. The PDP is too structured as a party to be used by anybody, under any guise, in that regard.

“Perhaps, Governor Buni is not aware that information available in the public space and to the PDP showed that a very top-level management official of the NNPC, through a northwest governor elected on the platform of the APC, diverted huge amounts of money, in dollar, from our nation oil resources to fund vote buying in the Ondo election.”

In the statement, Ologbondiyan who accused the APC of vote buying during the poll also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to fast track the amendment of the electoral Act so as to advance the country’s electoral reforms.

He said: “Instead of begging the PDP for congratulatory message, Governor Buni should rather speak to this disturbing stealing of oil money to fund his party’s vote buying at the expense of Nigerians who are bearing the brunt of increase in the pump price of fuel and corruption in the oil sector under the APC.

“While our party will, in due course, make its official position on the outcome of the Ondo election known, the PDP urges President Muhammodu Buhari to take steps that will accelerate the amendment of the Electoral Act, which was stalled following his failure to sign the amended Act of the National Assembly in 2019.”

Dotun Akintomide
Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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