{"id":30009,"date":"2014-08-08T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30009"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T21:03:13","slug":"rigging-allegation-infantile-blackmail-says-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/rigging-allegation-infantile-blackmail-says-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigging allegation an infantile blackmail, says PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has described the \u00a0allegations by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, that it planned to rig tomorrow\u2019s governorship election in Osun as an \u201cinfantile blackmail.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement. In a statement in Abuja Friday evening, said the allegations were \u201ccompletely wild, baseless and mere fabrications aimed at distracting PDP members and supporters and discourage them from fully participating in the election.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">The PDP described the allegation as \u201ca ploy by the APC to make its members and supporters over-confident and divert attention from their own sinister plan.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">Stating that there would be no room for rigging, the PDP said \u201cthe process of accreditation, voting, counting of votes and declaration of results will be openly observed by the print, electronic and social media as well as local and international observers.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">The PDP said \u201cone of the legacies of President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s administration is free, fair and credible polls such will in no way be compromised in Osun or any other election for that matter.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">It urged its members and supporters to completely disregard the APC and come out enmasse to vote for its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, stressing that it remains focused on the election having worked very hard to earn the confidence and support of the people of Osun state.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\">The PDP said it wished to \u201cremind Nigerians of the fact that for the APC, elections are only free and fair when they win and rigged when they lose.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #262626; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has described the \u00a0allegations by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, that it planned to rig tomorrow\u2019s governorship election&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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