By Onome Oghenetega
The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday denied allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the 2023 general elections by tampering with the newly introduced Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BIVAS) machines for the exercise.
PDP said the allegations particularly against the vice presidential candidate of the party and governor of Delta, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, were not only false, but a display a ‘loosing baby’.
The APC had accused the PDP including Governor Okowa and an unnamed senatorial candidate of the party of holding nocturnal meetings with INEC officials to purportedly undermine the BIVAS to be use for the forthcoming general elections in the state.
APC, through its state publicity secretary, Mr. Valentine Onojeghuo, also alleged that PDP was planning to frame up the party through the branding of vehicles to unleash mayhem in some part of the state in the name of the party.
But reacting to the allegations by the APC, the State Publicity Secretary of PDP, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, said the allegations lack any oita of truth and therefore urged Deltans to ignore the opposition party.
According to him, “The attention of Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been called to a scare orchestrated by the ill-fated and moronic All Progressives Congress (APC) at a phony press conference in which it accused the officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including the party’s Vice-Presidential Candidate and Governor of the State, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, of allegedly working with unnamed officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to rig the forthcoming general elections in the State.
“Accordingly, the Delta State PDP’s first reaction is to call the press conference and the allegations and vituperations against our party, the Vice-Presidential candidate of our party, and the Governor of Delta, Senator, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, and the imaginary party candidates as hogwash, a desperate move by a drowning and clueless party in search of elusive straw to hang on to.
“This is especially so, as it is clear to everyone that the APC, having seen its imminent defeat in the 2023 elections, has become reckless and hopeless. The result is part of addressing a bogus press conference that is not genuine and making wild allegations of fake connivance by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the elections for the PDP by subverting the operations of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) machines.
“Although it baffles the imagination that someone could address a press conference to make spurious allegations, that however, didn’t come to the Delta State PDP as a surprise because we would have been taken aback if the APC and its infantile propaganda machinery did not come out true to type with its baggage of deceptive communication of crying wolf where there is none.
“All the trash of allegations are laughable and deceptive, woven to divert the PDP’s focus from our ongoing stump hard work and house-to-house campaigns across the gamut of Delta State.
One thing is clear and that is that the APC is upset by the obvious imminent and resounding defeat that awaits it at the elections. Knowing quite well about this, and particularly knowing that Nigerians have seen through and are resisting its antics of using futile propaganda, the party has become lost and hysterical. It knows that Deltans have settled with the PDP and will vote for all its candidates at the elections. The APC and its leadership have become panic-stricken and therefore, furious.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the PDP will trounce the APC at the elections in a resounding manner. It is the assurance that the PDP has elicited from Deltans during the rigorous but well-engaged campaigns.
“Therefore, we call on the PDP faithful to ignore the gibberish called press conference by the APC’s lying machinery and remain focused on our diligent campaigns.
“Since the APC said that it has reported its ghost findings to the police, we charge it to allow the police to do their investigation and its job of unearthing the truth.”
