The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to a
press conference by the chairman of the contentious National Caretaker
Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor Mai Mala Buni,
wherein he begged the PDP to congratulate the APC over the outcome of
the October 10, Ondo governorship election.
It is indeed ludicrous and completely absurd that Governor Buni is
begging for endorsement of the election in spite of his awareness that
the internal mechanism that produced his party’s candidate, as presided
over by him, was faulty.
Nigerians already know that the emergence of Governor Mai Buni in the
national leadership of his party is a subject of litigation and as such
his nomination of any candidate for the election is seen, even among his
party members, as a nullity until the court says otherwise.
It will therefore be pathetic for Governor Mai Buni to attempt to use
the PDP to build something on the nothingness of his position in his
party. The PDP is too structured as a party to be used by anybody, under
any guise, in that regard.
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 oil resources to fund vote buying in the Ondo election.
Instead of begging the PDP for 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 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 Muhammodu
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.
