The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Campaign Council for the Ondo governorship election campaign has called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to bow to pressure by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to interfere in the October 10 election inorder to achieve a credible poll.
Speaking to reporters in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the outcome of the Edo Governorship election and the immediate congratulatory message from the President to Governor Godwin Obaseki was a commendable move in the eyes of Nigerians and the international community.
Ologbondiyan said the campaign council had earlier alerted of desperate moves by the APC to drag in certain officials of the Buhari Presidency as earlier boasted by Governor Akeredolu’s self-confessed thug, Isaac Kekemeke, who exposed that Governor Akeredolu plots to use violence and ‘federal might’ to muscle the election against the wishes and aspirations of the people of Ondo state.
The party also urged the President to direct the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies to restrict themselves to their statutory responsibilities as the Ondo people are ready to treat violators as fake security and fake INEC operatives.
The PDP National campaign said it stands with the Ondo people in their determination to rescue their state from the stranglehold of Governor Akeredolu’s self-serving government on Saturday and nothing will stop them from achieving the collective resolve.