Mantu Never Rigged Elections For Us, PDP Responds To APC

Mantu Never Rigged Elections For Us, PDP Responds To APC

Kola Ologbondiyan

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has totally refuted the claims by APC that a Senator rigged election on it's behalf.

This was disclosed on Sunday, by the opposition party  while responding to the request by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday urging it to come out and confess its sins against Nigerians like the lawmaker has done.

It was alleged a former senate president, Ibrahim Mantu, had in an interview granted Channels Television, revealed that he rigged elections for the PDP.

In response, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP National Publicity Secretary, said Mr Mantu’s reported claims are personal to him and has nothing to do with the PDP.

Ibrahim Mantu

See Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan responses:

“Senator Mantu spoke about his personal activities and tendencies in the elections where he participated. The PDP has never directed or had any pact with him to rig election on its behalf. Never!

“Individuals run their elections on the platform of political parties once they emerge as candidates. In the PDP, candidates are issued with the party’s Code of Conduct containing the basic rules of electioneering engagements.

“There is nowhere in this rules of engagement where candidates or party members are directed to rig elections on behalf of the party. If any member’s conduct transgressed these basic rules of engagement, that individual did not act on behalf of the PDP, and as such the party cannot be vicariously held responsible.

“It will therefore be misplaced for anybody, including the APC, to surmise that Senator Mantu, in the said confession of rigging, acted on behalf of the PDP.

“After all, in 2007, Senator Mantu lost his own senatorial election. What, then, happened to his rigging machinery, if he could not deliver himself.

“We urge the APC to manage its manifest failures in party administration as well as its incompetent, lackluster and wobbling governance which has grounded the nation’s economy and brought hunger and starvation to our people,” the statement added.




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