SOUTH-WEST Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elders on Tuesday expressed bitterness over what they described as flaws, deliberate sabotage, treachery and outright banditry that characterised the 2019 General Elections, urging elders, patriots and people of goodwill across the land to speak out with courage about the perceived wrong and imbalances in the nation’s polity.
This was just as the elders affirmed that wholeheartedly supported the decision of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to seek justice in the court of law rather than withdrawing into a shell of cowardice.
The PDP elders made their displeasure known in a communique read to newsmen after their meeting at the Ikoyi, Lagos residence of former deputy national chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George, describing the present electoral processes wherein result sheets were physically carried across the nation as absolutely primitive and apparently susceptible to all kinds of distortions.
The elders comprise of George, former deputy governor in Lagos State, Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele; Captain Tunji Shelle; Chief Ebenezer Babatope; Chief Okanlawon Soboyede; Lagos PDP Chairman, Dr Adegbola Dominic; Engr Tony Ojesina; Hon Dare Adeleke, Elder Wole Oyelere, Dr. Remi Akitoye, Chief Joju Fadairo, Prince Uthman Sodipe- Dosunmu, among others.
Reading the communique on behalf of the caucus, Prince Shodipe-Dosunmu explained that the apparent distortions in election results in Yobe, Borno, Rivers, Lagos, Adamawa, Kano and several other states diminished the purity of a fledgling democratic State.
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“All people of goodwill across our land should speak out with Holy courage and boldly about the perceived wrongs and the glaring imbalances in our polity. The Nigerian Union deserves peace, harmony, equity and a strengthened bond of brotherhood that will galvanize our nation to greater development and prosperity.
“Surely we do not pray for the collapse of our democracy. But we urge for vigilance and constant monitoring of the affairs of the state. We submit that the Nigerian Union has crossed a crucial threshold in the continuous struggle for a summative identity and national wholeness.
“We insist that the recent general elections were fraught with screaming flaws, deliberate sabotage, treachery and outright banditry. It is our resolve that the present electoral processes wherein result sheets are physically carried across the nation are absolutely primitive and apparently susceptible to all kinds of distortions,” the PDP chieftains said.
The elders equally noted with great annoyance what they termed the “mischievous interventions of the PDP national organ over imposition of fly-by night candidates on the states thereby provoking electoral failures and rank disasters.”
“We insist that we will never again tolerate the interference of outsiders in the affairs of the South-West. We urge the PDP Leadership to return to the first principle of fairness, equity and justice. The party must embrace men and women of selflessness and instinctive sacrifice rather than encourage little people who merely serve the hour.
“We support wholeheartedly the decision of our party Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to seek justice in the court of law rather than withdrawing into a shell of cowardice,” the party elders said.
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