Tribunal Verdicts: PDP Mocks APGA Over Procured Protest In Abia

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) berates the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) over its embarrassing resort to calling out paid touts
and street urchins to attempt and/or orchestrate a cosmetic protest in
Abia against the verdicts of election tribunals.

It is indeed a crass display of shameful desperation that a political
party that was roundly defeated in duly conducted elections as well as
in election tribunals would resort to attempting an imaginary protest.

For record purposes, the PDP wishes to remind APGA that our candidates
in national and state elections outrightly defeated them and we have no
apologies for that. In the same vein, APGA need not be told that in the
governorship election, they were comprehensively vanquished by the PDP
candidate, who is by all measures, the true choice of the people.

Furthermore, we wish to inform APGA leaders that their attempt to go
into an alliance with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and pledge an
unholy mortgage of Abia state treasury and the identity of their party
to Bourdillon is inoperable, since the image and identity of APGA has
since been lost.

May we remind APGA that its main identity, after the passage of their
founder, Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu, has been the former governor of Anambra
state, Peter Obi, who is now a committed member of the PDP.

Nigerians are aware that the weight, strength and financial muscle of
APGA was concentrated in Anambra Central Senatorial zone in the
elections, only for their candidate, their former National Chairman,
(Chief Victor Umeh) to be completely overwhelmed, outmatched, dazed and
roundly defeated by the PDP candidate.

The people of the South East have in many ways, including the 2015
general elections, shown their support and faith in the PDP. Even in Imo
state, the only state which was fraudulently taken from the PDP in the
zone, the citizens have been groaning and hoping that the judiciary, as
the last hope of the common man, would recover their mandate stolen at
the governorship election.

We therefore wish to inform APGA that no amount of blackmail, threats
and protest by paid touts and street urchins will override the tenets
and principles of democracy; the wishes and aspirations of the people
and the sanctity of the judicial process.

On this note, the national leadership of the PDP assures that it is
solidly behind the governor, government and people of Abia state in our
electoral feats. We wish to place on record that the Governor of Abia
state, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, since taking office on May 29, has
distinguished himself as one of the best governors in Nigeria as
evidenced in his quality of governance; the acceleration of
infrastructural development in the state, especially the spirited
efforts towards the re-establishment of Aba as one of the foremost
commercial hubs of the nation.

Finally, the national leadership urges all members of the PDP in Abia
state and the nation in general to remain steadfast in their commitment
towards the party, democracy, unity and stability of the nation, in line
with our manifesto and the visions of the founding fathers of our great
party.


Signed:

Chief Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary