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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of using the security agencies to clampdown on its members in different areas during last weekend’s by-elections to fill 16 vacant state and national assembly seats in 13 states across the country.
The PDP national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, at an interactive session with journalists, yesterday, in Abuja, said what the APC did last week was to test the ground for the 2027 polls.
He said the ruling party would be disappointed because Nigerians would step up to them in the next general elections.
He noted that plans to hold the PDP national convention scheduled to hold in Ibadan, Oyo State, from November 15 to 16, has reached an advanced stage.
He dismissed a media report that there were plans by some persons in the party to stage a parallel convention in Abuja as untrue, noting that the decision to hold the convention in Ibadan was reached at a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC), with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in attendance
“That is indeed a speculation. How do you have a national convention? There is a process and we are a party of process indeed. And what we do is that we follow the constitution of our party. Interestingly, the process has started. We have been in sync with our regulator, INEC. INEC has been attending all the meetings.
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“It is probably in the realm of conjecture. I think it would be in the realm of hallucination and this train has moved on. It has gone past the bus stop. We are actually in Ibadan, as I speak.”
He noted that the APC was always panicky whenever it perceives that PDP leaders were working together and would want to cause a disaffection so that the opposition party will not talk about the failures of the Federal Government.
The PDP spokesman, who said the opposition party was aware of the arrogance of the APC over last weekend’s by-elections, accused the ruling party of allegedly weaponizing the poverty in the country.
“We don’t call that an election. And we’ve heard about the arrogance of the APC. What they have done with those elections is to test the ground for 2007, but I have bad news for APC.
“What happened in those by-elections, will not happen in 2007. Why? Nigerian people are wiser. They are hurting. What will be on the ballot in 2007 will be the hunger, the uncertainty and the insecurity that no money can purchase.
“Only last week, in my little village, the chairman of my party was kidnapped. Now, it is so sad that when people get kidnapped in this country, you don’t even talk to the police. They say, go and look for the money. It sounds like a new normal.
“That is what will be on the ballot. Nigerian people will defeat them because they brought hunger to this country. For more than 10 years now, APC had been a point of pain to Nigeria,” he stated.
