Edo/Ondo polls: We Won’t Tolerate Rigging, PDP Govs Tell Buhari, INEC

“We met and we looked at the events happening in the two states. Though the electioneering has yet to kick off in Ondo State, we all witnessed what happened to our (PDP) members when we went to the Oba of Benin Palace (in Edo State) a few days ago. Nigerians saw how hoodlums, hired by our rival (party) attacked us and the governor. The aim of the attackers was to provoke us so that we would also react and thereby throw the entire area into confusion.

We are, therefore, sounding a note of warning that we as a party will not accept the outcome of any rigged election in the two states. We want clear, clean, transparent, and fair elections. Winners must emerge without any state help.

The people must be allowed to be governed by the people of their choice and not state- or security-imposed ones.

That’s what we are saying. We do not need any state or security help in any of the states because we know that our candidates are popular and loved by the people.

All that we are saying is that peoples’ votes must be allowed to count. We will not also accept the random arrest of our members in any of the states or any state for that matter before or after the elections.”

~ Aminu Tambuwal Governor of Sokoto State and Chairman PDP Governors Forum.