PDP mocks APC over conduct of party primary in Ondo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state has knocked the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the conduct of last Saturday primary election.

It said the APC’s conduct of the primary was a charade and a mockery of  democracy in every sense of the word.

The PDP noted that the national headquarters of the APC raked in N830m from aspirants for an exercise that ‘would be an anticlimax and their aspirations to occupy the number one seat in the state completely eclipsed and all the efforts headed for the dustbin.’

A statement by spokesman of the party, Kennedy Peretei, said Kogi state governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, wreaked more havoc in the conduct of the primary than his boss, Yahaya Bello, did four years during the re-election primary of late former Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

Peretei noted that journalists were shocked ‘that in almost all the centres that elections were supposed to hold, there were no election materials, neither were there officials to conduct the exercise.’

“Instead, there were reported cases of violence in Akure South and Okitipupa Local Government Areas, where political thugs had a field day. In one of the videos that was seen online to create impression that the exercise held, the returning officer counted to 400 and jumped to 560. Some of the aspirants have since called for the cancellation of the exercise. Punch