Nigerians will not vote in vain ― PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday assured Nigerians who voted freely for its candidates in the 2019 general elections that they will not be allowed to do so in vain.

The party said it will surely recover the Presidential mandate it said was given to the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar and ensure that none of the states where it is in the lead ahead of the March 23 supplementary election will be hijacked by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to the National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, who stated the position of the party during a solidarity visit by the leadership of the party on Sokoto State Governor, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, ahead of Saturday’s Supplementary election,  Nigerians are extremely hurting over the rigging of the Presidential and other elections by the APC, as well as the schemes to forcefully take over states already won by the PDP, leading to the supplementary elections.

“Elections are about the will of the people. When you force yourself on the people; that is not democracy. Today, Nigerians are unhappy with the way elections were rigged without allowing the will of the people to prevail,” Secondus said.

In his response, Gov Tambuwal said that the PDP and the people of Sokoto State are upbeat and fully mobilised to ensure that their will is not subverted.

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“We are upbeat as Sokoto State has never been this mobilised. People are praying and fasting by themselves and they are ready once again to ensure that their will is not subverted.

“What happened in the last elections was unimaginable as security agents took over the State. Ballot papers were found with APC members on the streets. The staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed the residences of our members, harassing and intimidating them.

Even on the day of the election, they were going around the polling units and picking up our members. There were open rigging in about six of the local government areas.

They brought their federal might to bear but the will of the people prevailed against them and we won, yet they declared the election inconclusive.

“So, in Sokoto, they have the will of the people to contend with and given the prayers that our people are offering every day and their decision to checkmate the rigging of APC, victory is sure to be for us and the PDP,” he said.

The PDP, therefore, urges all its members and supporters to remain steadfast and march out on March 23 to consolidate on the victory already won by the party in the states where supplementary elections have been scheduled.