The Osun State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has called on Nigerians to be vigilant ahead of the 2023 general elections following the tribunal judgement that nullified the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor of Osun State.
The caretaker chairman of the party, Dr Adekunle Akindele made this call on Saturday while addressing newsmen in Osogbo. He accused the All Progressives Congress of planning to sabotage the general elections by compromising the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System.
He said, “For us as a party, we understand the desperation of those behind the jankara judgement. We understand the trap they tried to set against the BVAS innovation in our electoral system. We understand the desperation goes beyond the Osun election or Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke.
“The evil plot is ultimately against the coming general election where in their usual fraudulent habit, millions of voter cards have either been cloned, registered with ghost names and are being made ready to be deployed especially for the presidential election, in which they could smell their total rejection far ahead of time.
“In this wise and in their fraudulent anticipation, the use of BVAS machine must be discredited and rendered impotent ahead of their planned invasion of the electoral field with their fraudulent antics. However ladies and gentlemen, this is a battle they cannot win!
“The experience in Osun calls for eternal vigilance of Nigerians. Nigerians from far and near must be vigilant because the poll robbers are not resting and are not even hiding it. They are on the streets boasting already with their trade to circumvent the process against popular choice of Nigerians. This we must all fight or the nation is doomed in their hands.”
“Our party takes exception to the blanket rubbish of recent innovations introduced into the electoral process through the 2022 amended electoral act, as passed by the national assembly and assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Akindele said the PDP had always been suspecting Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Tertsea Kume of being biased.
He said, “Our party had always suspected Mr Tertse Kume conduct in the course of hearing of the petition. Most times, the Benue State born controversial arbiter would get lost and get himself overwhelmed with his bias tendencies and enter the role of lead counsel to the petitioner, arguing points for them like a hired mercenary, even when it was obvious the hired counsels for the petitioner had lost their way.
“This reckless abuse of privilege got to a head when Mr Tetse had to step down hearing twice for the APC lead counsel to adjust and regain himself when the latter got lost in traffic of trying to adumbrate white as black in their final written address.”
