General elections: PDP planning to import violence, Ekiti APC alleges

An All Progressives Congress(APC) group  under the banner of  Buhari/Osinbajo campaign council in Ekiti State has accused the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ekiti chapter, of plotting  to import violence to the state during the 2019 presidential election

The council however said  the sinister intention will be frustrated by  the  APC and the good people of the state.

The Director General of the campaign, Dr. Olusegun Osinkolu and his Deputy in Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Hon Taiwo Olatunbosun, said they will use the elections to prove that the opposition party, PDP,  is dead in Ekiti with the outcome of the July 14 governorship election, which Dr. Kayode Fayemi won.

At a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, the Director General of the council and other directors of the campaign outfit,  said President Buhari had been campaigning round the country  and that it was wrong for the opposition to brand the President as  unfit.

” The president had been to Bauchi, Yobe , Kogi campaigning to Nigerians on his reelection bid, can a sick man do all these?

“It is sad that former President Olusegun Obasanjo could say all these. In 2007 elections, he told Nigerians that they should reject Alhaji Abubakar Atiku calling him a thief and now he is campaigning for the same person.

“Though, Obasanjo is free to express his opinion on state’s issues but he should rather act like a statesman”,he said.

Olatunbosun  added that  the former President was not qualified to speak about the health status of the  President, since he was not a medical doctor.

“Where did former President get his information about President Buhari’s fitness? Was it from the Theology school he just attended?”, he asked.

Olatunbosun added that the coming elections are  going to be  walkover for the APC in Ekiti and will  become what he termed  ” end of discussion for the PDP”.

He said: “The coming elections will silence  opposition and its  demagoguery . We shall go round Ekiti and showcase President Buhari’s achievements, which were felt everywhere.

“We heard about the plan of the PDP to invade Ekiti and we know that  the present government and security will checkmate them. The voice of the people must count in these coming elections and we are confident Buhari will win.”

The Chairman of the tradermoni scheme in Ekiti, Mr Oscar Ayeleso, dispelled the insinuation that the scheme was a tactical approach for vote buying, saying beneficiaries were randomly picked in a manner outside political considerations.

He said 16,000 and 8,000 persons were enumerated for the tradermoni and market money schemes in the state alone  and that the beneficiaries will get their loans to set up small scale businesses from the bank of Industry.

According to him: “Most of those that were enumerated  in about 11 markets where Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited in Ekiti on Monday were randomly picked, no political colouration, so the issue of trying to induce our voters does not arise.”

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