Group Describes PDP’s Allegation Of Rigging In 2019 Polls As Acceptance Of Defeat

The Buhari Media Organization (BMO), has described the allegation by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) about plans to rig the 2019 election as an indication that the PDP has admitted defeat even before the first ballot is cast.

In a statement reacting to the allegation by the PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus, the Chairman of the group, Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, said that the allegation is a crude attempt to whip up sentiment.

The group wondered why the PDP which, it said, has perfected the art of using undemocratic means to win elections in the past would now believe that President Muhammadu Buhari would sanction a rigging plot

“And how about a situation where PDP is quick to lash out at INEC when it loses by-elections in the President’s traditional strongholds but keeps quiet when it wins in areas of its perceived strength?”

The group commended the Independent National Commission of Nigeria (INEC) for choosing to ignore the opposition party’s serial allegations that have no backing evidence.

“We respect INEC’s decision not to join issues with any political party, especially the one that has perfected the art of raising false alarms.

“On our own part, we see the spurious allegations by the PDP as an unnecessary hallucination, acceptance of defeat before the election, and crying wolf where there is none.

“We believe PDP is scared by the enormous and outpouring of goodwill and support for President Buhari through his care and feeling for the common man”.

“The president has performed wonderfully well and the result is there for all to see; from thousands of kilometers of roads rehabilitated or reconstructed, the quantum increase in power generation and the social investment programmes that have captured over 10 million poor Nigerians.”

It said that these verifiable achievements of the Buhari administration are what Uche Secundus and the PDP are scared of.

“Obviously, PDP has seen the hand-writing on the wall that it will suffer the mother of all defeats in 2019, hence the recourse to scaremongering and the allegation of massive rigging.”