Bayelsa Election: PDP's Stand On The Cancellation of Southern Ijaw

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) commends
the courage of the people of Bayelsa state in fearlessly curtailing
APC’s rigging machinery, which led to the cancellation of the fabricated
elections in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area.

The party said but for the bravery of Bayelsans in standing up for their
votes against the hordes of harassments by the military and other
security forces working for the APC, their will as a people would have
been completely subverted in the election.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh on Monday said it is proud of the actions and concerted efforts of
its members in resisting rigging and impunity.

“We condemn in the strongest possible term, the wanton confiscation and
transfer of voting materials by security operatives directly to APC
agents for outright allocation of votes.

“For the purposes of the rescheduled Southern Ijaw election, we wish to
make it abundantly clear that we are ready, willing and able to defend
the choice of the people. Never again will this leadership of the PDP
allow our party candidates to be manipulated out of any election at any
level. In that regard, we have activated our structures across the
country to defend our mandate always, with all force and means available
in a democracy.

“Nevertheless, we are indeed concerned about the apparent inability of
the present INEC to conduct a credible election in a single state,
especially in the light of the fact that very soon they will need to
conduct a general election in all the states.

“Finally, for the security forces busy brutalizing innocent Nigerians
exercising their democratic rights, we declare that they should hide
their faces in shame over the flexing of muscles in terror free zones.

Signed:

Chief Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary