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THE All Progressives Congress, APC, said its victory at the senatorial by-election in Borno Central on Saturday, October 31, was not a fluke as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would want everybody to believe.
The APC said the PDP had long lost every ground in the state. The PDP had rejected the result of the by-election in which the APC senatorial candidate was declared winner, alleging violation of electoral rules and intimidation of the opposition by the APC-led federal government.
But a statement issued on Tuesday, November, 3, by Lai Mohammed, national publicity secretary, the party said it would amount to dishonesty on the part of the PDP to expect victory in Borno State, where it had a dismal outing during the last general election in March and April, and where the opposition party had remained sharply divided.
“For the umpteenth time, we will like to say that for any opposition to be credible and relevant, it must avoid engaging in bare-faced distortion of facts and making ridiculous claims that cannot be supported by available evidence. What the PDP has done by giving the impression that it could have won the Borno Central Senatorial election but for the alleged use of compromised electoral officials and security forces is ludicrous.
While justifying its popularity in Borno State, the APC cited the results of the 2015 presidential elections, where it scored 473,543 votes compared to a paltry 25,640 received by the PDP. It also said that in the 2015 governorship election in Borno, APC scored 649,913 votes to the measly 34,771 by the PDP.
“The National Assembly election was not different. The APC won all three seats in the Senate and 10 in the House of Representatives, leaving nothing for the pitiful PDP. The APC also won 28 seats in the state House of Assembly in which the pathetic PDP got zero seat.
‘’Put these figures side by side with the fact that the people of Borno have long distanced themselves from the PDP, which presided over the worst moment in the history of the state that saw thousands of deaths, displacements as well as destruction of schools, farms, markets, etc, by Boko Haram, and one can clearly realize that the PDP was simply lying to itself and the nation by suggesting that it had any chance in last Saturday’s election.
‘’It is also clear that while nothing has changed in Borno to make the good people of the state to vote for the PDP, a lot has happened to bring even more people into the fold of the APC. The obvious successes scored by the military under a purposeful APC Federal Government has eased the pains and sufferings of the people of the state, with the state government rebuilding damaged schools to put more pupils in school while schools that have been shut for long are being reopened.
‘’The PDP is simply not on ground in Borno, and it amounts to a dishonourable behaviour for anyone to suggest that the party could have won last Saturday’s election in the state. Stretching such incredulity to now say that our democracy is threatened under President Muhammadu Buhari is outlandish, uncharitable and irresponsible,’’ APC said.
The party reminded the PDP, which had promised to provide credible opposition, that there was nothing credible in presenting fiction as fact, or in daily making wild and unsubstantiated allegations against the President Buhari, whom, the statement was busy cleaning the mess left behind by the same PDP.
— Nov 4, 2015 @ 15:15 GMT
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