The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the All Progressives
Congress (APC) saying the opposition party is merely crying wolf ahead
of Saturday’s Anambra governorship election because it knows that the
people have rejected them.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, on Thursday also said it is proud of President Goodluck
Jonathan’s stand on electoral transparency and credible polls at all
levels across the country.
“The APC is now living in morbid fear because the people of Anambra
State and the South East in general have rejected it on account of its
tribal stance and hatred for the region as demonstrated in its sectional
and anti-people policies including the recent deportation of Anambra
state indigenes from Lagos which resulted in untold hardship and death
of some of the victims, who were severally tortured before being dumped
at Upper Iweka Head Bridge in Onitsha in the dead of the night.”
The PDP, which described the APC as party of propagandists and the
deceitful also wonders why they restricted themselves to criticizing
elections only in states where they lost such as Ondo and Delta, but
sees nothing wrong in states where they won such as Edo, even when
stakeholders in such states have raised credibility issues.
The party stressed that contrary to claims by the opposition, President
Goodluck Jonathan has remained resolute in his commitment to free and
fair elections as reflected in his mantra of one man, one vote noting
that the drastic reduction in electoral disputes under President
Jonathan is a clear testimony in this regard.
Lashing out at the APC for not imbibing the spirit of sportsmanship when
it is defeated as demonstrated by the PDP on many occasions, the PDP
said President Jonathan has remained open and objective on election
issues adding that “it is on record that the President has always
congratulated candidates who won in free and fair elections irrespective
of the parties they belong”.
The PDP therefore told the opposition to “wake up to the reality of its
rejection by the people and look elsewhere to cast its lame
vituperations”