PDP Supporters Jubilate As INEC Decides That Election Must Hold
Supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) went into wild jubilation on Thursday
following an assurance by the State chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, that
INEC has said it would go ahead to conduct Edo state governorship
election this Saturday, September 10, as earlier scheduled.
At a meeting organised by the
party in Benin City, Chairman of Edo PDP, Chief Dan Orbih, said the
party was shocked and utterly disappointed by what he termed recent
attempts by some persons to use the security apparatus of government to
initiate actions that would have culminated in a sudden and unwarranted
postponement of the Edo election.
He wondered how a state that
hosted President Muhammadu Buhari during the APC rally in Benin City
without any problem suddenly became unsafe, adding that should that be
the case, the security operatives under normal circumstances would have
advised the president not to come to Edo state.
“Mr. President not only visited the stadium for the rally, he also visited other places in the state safely”, Orbih declared.
According to him, “We the Edo
state PDP participated fully in the stakeholders’ meeting and fully
endorsed the proceedings as did all the 18 other participating political
parties.
“We are therefore at a loss as
to how security operatives in faraway Abuja could turn around to
advise INEC to consider postponement of the governorship election in
Edo state slated for September 10, 2016
at the same time that the leader of the security operatives had assured
of peace before, during and after the election and affirmed their
readiness and preparedness to do so”.
Against this premise,
therefore, Orbih accused the state government of orchestrating the shift
of the election in connivance with certain elements because he has seen
that APC has lost the election.
Orbih further alleged that the
PDP has uncovered a proposal made by some people to the INEC to change
Electoral Officers (EO) already trained and mobilised for the election,
adding that the party was already in possession of the names of the
Electoral Officers and that any attempt to change them will be resisted
by the PDP.
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