Bayelsa Election: Read PDP’s Stand On Cancellation Of Southern Ijaw Result

Following the cancellation of the election in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa state, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the courage of the people “in fearlessly curtailing APC’s rigging machinery” which, it claimed, led to the cancellation of the fabricated elections in Southern Ijaw.

According to Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the PDP, the party was “proud of the actions and concerted efforts of its members in resisting rigging and impunity”.

“We condemn in the strongest possible term, the wanton confiscation and transfer of voting materials by security operatives directly to APC agents for outright allocation of votes.

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“For the purposes of the rescheduled Southern Ijaw election, we wish to make it abundantly clear that we are ready, willing and able to defend the choice of the people. Never again will this leadership of the PDP allow our party candidates to be manipulated out of any election at any level. In that regard, we have activated our structures across the country to defend our mandate always, with all force and means available in a democracy.

“Nevertheless, we are indeed concerned about the apparent inability of the present INEC to conduct a credible election in a single state, especially in the light of the fact that very soon they will need to conduct a general election in all the states.

“Finally, for the security forces busy brutalizing innocent Nigerians exercising their democratic rights, we declare that they should hide their faces in shame over the flexing of muscles in terror free zones,” the statement added.

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Police Force has just released a statement that all forms of professional rallies or demonstrations have been banned from Bayelsa state.

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