PDP Berates Tinubu, ACN Over Comments

The South West Zone of the PDP has berated the ACN and its leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, over Tinubu’s comments on election rigging.

A statement by the PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Mr Kayode Babade, in Lagos said that ACN and Tinubu did not have the required moral rights to comment on election rigging.

“Tinubu and ACN must first explain to Nigerians what happened to last year’s Local Council elections’ results in Lagos State which has not been made public up till now.

“It is obvious that the ACN and its leader do not have the moral rights of talking about what will happen in 2015 if elections are rigged.

“It has become imperative that we tell the hypocrites in the ACN to allow credible people, who are directing the affairs of this country, especially as regard the conduct of elections, to do their jobs.

“Or was it not in this country that Local Council elections were held in Lagos State and winners were not declared until four days after the elections.

“And even when the purported winners were declared, was the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) able to announce the election results. Has the results been announced up till today?

“So, can a party that openly and scandalously rigged council elections in Lagos be the one to accuse PDP of rigging a presidential election in which it claimed to have even supported the PDP candidate against its own candidate?” the statement said.

The PDP observed that the Lagos Council polls experience was enough to show how elections in Nigeria would have been if the ACN was running the affairs of the country.