BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 14, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the opposition party was merely crying wolf ahead of Saturday’s Anambra governorship election because it knows that the people have rejected the party.
PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, 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 statement said.
The PDP, which described the APC as party of propagandists and the deceitful m also wonders why the party restricted itself to criticising elections only in states where it lost such as Ondo and Delta, but sees nothing wrong in states where it 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 “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 statement therefore asked the opposition to “wake up to the reality of its rejection by the people and look elsewhere to cast its lame vituperations.”
