PRESS STATEMENT
APC PLOTTING TO RIG 2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State Chapter has uncovered a grand plan by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the 2023 general elections.
Against the background of unfulfilled promises made to Nigerians in 2015 and 2019, the leadership of the APC has perfected a plot to compromise the electoral process by recruiting fake Youth Corps Members to serve as Presiding Officers during the general elections.
The plot was hatched in a meeting attended by Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, APC State Chairman, Engr. Ade Adetimehin and other leaders in Abuja, where marching order was given to them to quickly identify five leaders in each of the 18 Local Government Areas of the State to coordinate this evil plot.
If the 2023 elections were to be about dividends of democracy delivered to the people, the APC knows, it does not stand any chance of winning. Their recent outing in Osun State Gubernatorial Election has also opened their eyes to the reality that, not even the bullion vans can save them from imminent failure, hence the ploy to resort to any available tricks in the books.
For example, in Ondo State, where civil servants have become the butt of every joke, especially teachers whose promotion letters were withheld for not presenting Masters in Education degrees or forced to attend Public Service Training Institute, Ilara-Mokin for a whooping N130,000.00 per person must not be allowed to freely exercise their franchise by voting their preferred candidates. In a free and fair election, the civil servants will certainly revenge their humiliation and frustration over the years.
Our party calls on the Independent National Electoral Commission, not to allow itself to be used in this unpatriotic act. If President Muhammad Buhari failed tragically to provide security, and also failed to sustain the prosperous economy he inherited, the least expectation from him is to deliver free, fair and credible elections in 2023. He should not allow, desperate politicians in his party destroy whatever is remaining of his battered image.
Our party urges Nigerians desirous of rescuing and rebuilding our dear country to be vigilant at all times, especially during the elections, as choices open to them is either to allow the incompetent APC government to continue in power or stop the present drift at all costs.
Kennedy Ikantu Peretei.
State Publicity Secretary, PDP, Ondo State.
4th September, 2022.
2023: PDP suffering from political paralysis
The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has been drawn to spurious and laughable allegation of plans to rig the forthcoming elections in the Sunshine State.
To us, this is very pathetic of the once vibrant opposite party that is currently suffering from self-inflicted political paralysis. The Ondo APC wishes to sympathize with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over it’s impending miserable outing during the general elections in 2023.
The woes of the PDP would be be compounded by both it’s internal wranglings, lack of cohesion, and poor arrangements for the national exercise.
While the APC has since commenced preparations at resolving issues that arose from its primaries, and moving, with all seriousness, to mobilize it’s members ahead of it’s proper and civilized campaigns, the PDP is still pouting, and plotting who to blackmail for it’s unavailable poor results.
The APC led- government in Ondo State would remain focused on it’s responsibilities to the people. Emphasis on good governance is the crux of our decisions.
Perhaps, it is imperative to remind the wobbling PDP that Ondo State is too enlightened to fall for lifeless propaganda.
It is unbelievable that the PDP would take it upon itself to hold vigil for civil servants that have since collected their promotion letters, and prayed ceaselessly for Mr. Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, for the gesture.
For the first time in the history of the Sunshine State, primary school teachers are promoted to Grade Level 16.
There existed a recent government in the State who never believed in the promotion of workers.
The APC would bank on the support and understanding of the people, besides it’s uncommon level of performance in every sector, to secure landslide victory come 2023.
We appeal to the opposition party to perish the thoughts of rigging during the elections. There would be no room for such manipulation.
We are convinced that we have thus far served the Sunshine State well, despite all challenges, to garner their votes, and would never contemplate cutting corners.
Alex Kalejaye,
Publicity Secretary,
Ondo APC
5th September, 2022
