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PDP Will Come Out of Crisis Stronger —Olafeso
PDP Will Come Out of Crisis Stronger —Olafeso
Olorogun Eddy Eniola Olafeso was a National Vice Chairman South-West of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and a leader of the party from Ondo State. In this interview with YINKA OLADOYINBO, he speaks about the November 16 governorship election in the state and other issues. Excerpts:
The Ondo State governorship election has come and gone, what factors were responsible for the performance of your party?
What went wrong was an institutional robbery and abuse of the electoral process occasioned and supervised by the Federal Government, using all the institutions that are supposed to participate in the process to scuttle it. What we have discovered out of the election is the total failure of INEC, but our hope is in the tribunal and in the people. Then criminalizing the process with vote buying that has never been known to this country, the kind of money they brought into Ondo State was a child’s play compared to what happened in Edo State, so everything that should go wrong went wrong and it is a disgrace that despite all these several attempts by INEC to convince Nigerians that things are progressing, things are really regressing. I heard Mammood Yakubu talking in Ghana about Nigerian example, may it never happen to Ghana what is happening in Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party would go all the way to make sure that the stolen mandate is restored, despite all the odds, the judiciary is still the hope of the common man and we believe that the judiciary in all the stages will be consulted to be the arbiter in situation like this, but the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State was the darkest moment in our history.
What lessons have you learnt from the defeat in the election?
The lesson we have learnt is that you cannot trust any of the federal institutions, because the Federal Government under APC has corrupted the whole process in quantum. Things are not what they used to be, the lesson we can learn is to be vigilant and we continue to pursue our case in the court, we know that you cannot trade fairness, equity and justice with APC, so if we have learnt any lesson, it is to be united for that across the country to prepare ourselves for the future, it is going to be a democratic battle royal so that we don’t allow these people in the office longer.
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