We’ll Make Known Our Position On Ondo Election Soon – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said its position on the just concluded Ondo State Governorship Election would be made known in due course.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja.
He urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to take steps that will accelerate the amendment of the Electoral Act, which was stalled when he did not sign the amended Act of the National Assembly in 2019.
Ologbondiyan berated the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Mai Mala Buni, for asking the PDP to congratulate the APC over the outcome of the Ondo governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had on Sunday declared Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the APC, as winner of the election.
Ologbondiyan said, “Perhaps, Governor Buni is not aware that information available in the public space and to the PDP showed that a very top-level management official of the NNPC, through a northwest governor elected on the platform of the APC, diverted huge amounts of money, in dollar, from our nation’s oil resources to fund vote-buying in the Ondo election.
“Instead of begging the PDP for the congratulatory message, Governor Buni should rather speak to this disturbing stealing of oil money to fund his party’s vote buying at the expense of Nigerians who are bearing the brunt of the increase in the pump price of fuel and corruption in the oil sector under the APC.
“While our party will, in due course, make its official position on the outcome of the Ondo election known, the PDP urges President Muhammadu Buhari to take steps that will accelerate the amendment of the Electoral Act, which was stalled following his failure to sign the amended Act of the National Assembly in 2019.”
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