Port Harcourt convention: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed the alleged claim of vote-buying by its Presidential aspirants during the just concluded PDP Presidential primaries / Port Harcourt convention, in Rivers State, insisting that the ruling party should focus on real issues and stop the smear campaign.
In a statement released by the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said, the Party notes the uneasiness, apprehension, and nervousness in the drowning Buhari Presidency and the fading All Progressives Congress (APC) since the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the Presidential candidate of PDP. from its Port Harcourt convention
He said such nervousness in the deflated party has led to a renewed attempt at a smear campaign with a spurious allegation against our Presidential candidate a defeatist approach that shows that the APC and Buhari Presidency are afraid of the Atiku candidacy and have reached their wit’s end, well ahead of the elections.
Stating further, he said, the claims, by the failed and dysfunctional APC of vote-buying at our national convention is not only false but completely unfounded and symptomatic of a party that has totally lost bearing and now engaged in rumour mongering. He said:
For us as a party, such allegation from the APC is not unexpected given that APC, tried everything possible to scuttle our national convention and Presidential primary but woefully failed, hence the desperation to engage in an attempt to discredit the process.
Unlike the APC that has an unpopular candidate who has failed in governance, foisted on it without an election the whole world watched with excitement as 12 aspirants contested the PDP Presidential primary, where delegates drawn from respected across the country, freely voted for a candidate of their choice.
To the amusement of Nigerians, the APC conducted a non-contest convention in which it declared President Buhari the “winner” with over 14 million fictitious votes.
In their desperation, they forgot that winning as a word connotes a contest.
Strangely, the APC declared as having won, when there was never a contest. a charade by a deceptive party with duplicitous leaders.
While we note that the APC is suffering from a defaults trauma, we caution this fading party and its Presidential candidate who had failed our nation to steer clear of our party and get ready for an issue-based campaign ahead of the 2019 elections.
It is instructive to state that at a smear campaign against our candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will fail as Nigerians only in the candidate that can make a turn around of the ugly situation Buhari Presidency has sunk us.