PDP: Buhari’s Failure To Address Issues Of Electoral Violence Registers Grave Meanings to Nigerians

Following reported cases of violence and alteration of election results in the just conducted Kogi and Bayelsa Governorship polls allegedly perpetrated by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speak on the issues.

The PDP made the call on Saturday through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

According to Ologbondiyan, Buhari should have used the APC National Executive Committee meeting to directly and strongly condemn his party’s alleged resort to violence, killing forceful invasion of polling units and alteration of results to seize votes in the November 16 guber polls in the two states as well as Kogi West Senatorial election.

He said by so doing, it would have shown that the president sought to uphold the constitution of the country.

He said, “President Buhari by now ought to have summoned his service chiefs and ordered a presidential investigation into the violence and observed infractions in the elections, including the deployment of a Police helicopter to teargas voters.

“It is important to state that such a failure however registers grave meanings to Nigerians.

“It is also unfortunate that instead of taking concrete and decisive steps to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crimes in Kogi and Bayelsa to book and give assurances of electoral reforms, Mr. President is rather seeking to make discourse of an unattainable third term.”

The PDP spokesman said from Buhari’s speech, it is clear that he is more interested in the survival of the APC than the survival of democracy.

The president nor the APC at the time of filing this report,  are yet to respond to this allegation by the major opposition party in the country.

Recall that a Women Leader of the PDP in Kogi, Salome Acheju was on Monday, November 18 gruesomely killed.

Salome, who until her death was the women leader of Musa Wada/Aro campaign council, Ochadama ward was on burnt alive in her home by suspected thugs.

Musa Wada was the governorship candidate of the PDP in the just concluded guber polls in the state.