FCT poll: It’s not over, says PDP

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

The last might not have been heard about the February 21 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council elections, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it has set up a legal term to analyse the election result, so as to decide on its next line of action.

According to results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the chairmanship position in five out of the six area councils, while the PDP won only one chairmanship seat.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, told Saturday Sun, in a telephone interview, that the Federal Government apparatus was weaponised against opposition parties, ahead of the contest.

Ememobong, who stated that the opposition party was keeping his next action close to its chest, noted that elections in the country are not over until the courts have concluded their works.

“We have set up a legal term to analyse issues that came out from the election.  You know that with the ‘judicialisation’ of politics, elections are not over, until the courts have concluded their works. So, we are still analysing in terms of petitions to be filed and all the rest. The outcome of the elections, I am sure that people did not even expect the PDP to come out anywhere.”

The ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, told Saturday Sun: “The position of the party is that we reject the FCT election result, because we believe that it was fraudulently rigged. Having said that, we have learnt important lessons and we are returning to the drawing board. We are moving on, preparing for the next election.”