March 18: Labour Party Members Are Those Threatening ‘Do-Or-Die’ Election
March 18: Labour Party Members Are Those Threatening ‘Do-Or-Die’ Election
The Enugu State Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council has denied the allegations that it was planning to unleash violence to rig the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections.
Naija News House had earlier reported that the Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, had alleged that the PDP and its government in Enugu distributed political thugs in some local government areas, arming them with weapons to unleash terror on residents and rig the polls.
But reacting to allegations, the PDP said that the Enugu Labour Party was “a wicked lot, who run when no man is pursuing them.”
The PDP, however, thanked the LP for letting out and confirming to the world its nefarious plot to unleash violence on the people of Enugu State, as was declared by the LP Senator-elect for Enugu North Senatorial District, Chief Okey Ezea, which the PDP noted.
The PDP said it was instructive that the LP was as yet to condemn the “do-or-die” threat by its mouthpiece several weeks after.
The Campaign Council spoke through its Director of Public Communications/Spokesman, Nana Ogbodo, on Monday.
It said that the fever, which had come over the LP since it recorded some unexpected and fleeting victories in the National Assembly Elections through a bandwagon effect of the presidential election would be cured by the discerning Enugu State electorates on March 18.
“We won’t condescend to join issues with the Enugu Labour Party, which has been understandably unable to manage its unexpected success at the 25th February National Assembly election. It is a fact that whatever victories they scored were not predicated on the strength or popularity of their candidates, most of whom are either perennial losers or unknown quantities, but rather on the popularity of one man, who will not be on the ballot on March 18.
“It is also instructive that even Peter Obi, for whom the people actually deferred to, has categorically urged the electorate to eschew party definitions and vote for candidates with proven competence, capacity, and character, which the PDP candidate, Dr. Peter Mbah, epitomises.
“In any case, we thank the Enugu LP for letting us into their grand designs to unleash terror on Enugu people and massively rig the electoral process as announced by the LP Senator-elect for Enugu North Senatorial District, Chief Okey Ezea, who declared the forthcoming governorship election in the state as “a do-or-die” affair.
“However, we are to assure them that we have petitioned the Inspector-General of Police over that deadly threat by Chief Ezea and that Enugu people will come out en masse to vote for Dr. Peter Mbah and the PDP in a peaceful atmosphere and that their votes will count. Enugu people will never surrender to their threats and evil designs,” it stated.
The PDP further called on the Inspector-General of Police and the heads of other security agencies not to spare any troublemaker plotting deaths and mayhem in the forthcoming governorship and State House of Assembly elections in the state.
