The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has indicated interest to boycott the November 30, supplementary election for Kogi West rerun poll.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday, indicated that the party may not be participating in the supplementary poll for the senatorial axis.

The PDP spokesman specifically mentioned that the party has not only lost interest in the electoral umpire, but also rejected the scheduled supplementary election; an indication they might not participate in it.

The statement read in part: “After a further review of the November 16 elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) notes that it is now clearer to Nigerians that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) do not want democracy to thrive in Nigeria.

“The PDP and Nigerians in general have forcefully rejected the results bandied by INEC in the elections. We also reject the proposed Kogi West Senatorial rerun election, which has already been desecrated by the manipulations in the main election.

“As long as the figures in the main election are fundamentally flawed, the proposed rerun cannot reflect the wishes of the electorate and Nigerians are wondering if it will make any sense to participate in an electoral process that is already deficient.

“Nigerians across board have completely lost faith in the nation’s electoral process given that Independent National Electoral Commission under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has been annexed and cannot conduct any free, fair and credible election.

“For us in the PDP and, we believe, to majority of Nigerians as well, Professor Yakubu is the worst electoral umpire in the political history of our nation.

“Furthermore, the police and the military high commands have been reduced to tools of election brutality to ensure that votes do not count.

“Even the Police high command has openly admitted that the police is incapable of protecting voters and votes; thus validating the reported involvement of security agents in the brutalization of voters and disruption of electoral process.

“More distressing is the fact that Nigerians, particularly our members and supporters in Kogi and Bayelsa states, are still in trauma over the murderous November 16 elections.

“A lot of our people have been killed and our members are still grieving.“It is public knowledge that all accredited local and international observers, including the Civil Society Situation Room, have declared that the elections did not meet the minimum standard for credible election and have unanimously called for outright cancellation.

“There is indeed nothing to indicate that more people will not be massacred in the proposed Kogi West Senatorial re-run election. It is therefore doubtful if Nigerians will be prepared to participate in that re-run given their sordid experiences in the last election.

“There is already a growing consensus across the nation that participating in elections by INEC as presently constituted under the Buhari Presidency would amount to helping to legitimize illegitimacies and outright criminalities.

“Indeed, Nigerians are not ready to join in whitewashing INEC’s battered image as such would also amount to putting a lipstick on a pig.

“Moreover, there are reports in the public space that the APC-controlled Federal Government does not want Senator Dino Malaye in the Senate just because of his forthrightness in defending the interest of the people.

“Nigerians recall with shock how, at the presentation of the 2020 budget, Mr. President reportedly asked Senator Malaye “you, you mean you are still in this chamber?. A question which meaning cannot be farfetched.

“Our party has been made aware of how INEC and security apparatus have been instructed to use all means to stop Senator Dino from returning to the Senate. INEC had also blatantly refused to consider Senator Melaye’s petitions regarding the November 16 election.

“Nevertheless, the PDP remains strong and undeterred. Our party is aware of that fact that millions of Nigerians look unto our platform for strength and direction in their quest for freedom and preservation of their rights. For this, we will remain resilient till the end.

“This country belongs to all of us and nobody, no matter how highly placed, has the right to appropriate our common sovereignty for his or her anti-people purpose.

“However, as we forge on in this collective struggle, the PDP directs all flags at our national, state and local government secretariats to fly at half mast from Monday, November 25th to Wednesday, November 27th in honour of all those killed in Bayelsa and Kogi states by the APC and their thuggish collaborators.”

http://kogireports.com/kogi-west-senate-rerun-pdp-rejects-nov-30-supplementary-poll/?fbclid=IwAR3o4RHNZ_QjBwiv-XS24xGyl2KYZacZ4yNvHzqiI9Quz7W0NdSmV56fyHU

Shout yeast party is afraid to face election

Elections will still go ahead sha

It is high time we start boycotting the so called elections under APC led administration.

Cold of failure dey catch PDP

Who cares whether you boycott or girlcott? Useless bunch of sore losers.

Sirjamo:
Who cares whether you boycott or girlcott? Useless bunch of sore losers.

You really is the loser. If APC was that popular in the state why intimidation, killing and open rigging.

What you people refused to understand is that this rigging system of democracy will never earn us any development instead it will keep enriching the politicians.

You I mean you will always be their slave. Until we have a system where the people decide who lead them

PDP are already 40k vote down, it only makes sense they boycott the election and save their diginity



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netpro:
Cold and failure dey catch PDP

Irrespective of the political party we belong to we must grow beyond sentiment and call what is bad a bad.

November 16 election results were not the reflection of the will of the people. Kogi State have no problem with APC, or Buhari butYahaya Bello.

It is pity we have a central who only care about their selfish interest and not the people. If not what stop them given us a better candidate.

Let them boycott it.

Even if they participate, where do they want to see 40k votes?

Secondus has ruined PDP.

Yeye they smell

Secondus Party

solmusdesigns:




PDP are already 40k vote down, it only makes sense they boycott the election and save their diginity



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It is not all about PDP it all about our democracy.

You cannot continuously suppress the will of the people in the name of election.

Let it be known that we are not really matured enough to practice true democracy. We can decide to look for other means of appointing our leaders.

Emedu:


You really is the loser. If APC was that popular in the state why intimidation, killing and open rigging.

What you people refused to understand is that this rigging system of democracy will never earn us any development instead it will keep on enriching the politicians.

You I mean you will always be their slave. Until we have a system where the people decide who lead them

Yes, please include rigging in Rivers, Ekiti, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto as examples. Don't forget to include PDP sixteen years of writing results without votes

Emedu:


It is not all about PDP it all about our democracy.

You cannot continuously suppress the will of the people in the name of election.

Let it be known that we are not really matured enough to practice true democracy. We can decide to look for other means of appointing our leaders.

Dude you might not be mature in your state and region, but here in Oyo State we vote candidate and who we want not party, i got first hand report on kogi election and heard many willingly sold their vote for small change of 2k, 3k so why should Nigerian democracy be blamed for kogi people's decission and freewill?

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You really is the loser. If APC was that popular in the state why intimidation, killing and open rigging.

What you people refused to understand is that this rigging system of democracy will never earn us any development instead it will keep on enriching the politicians

Hmmmmm So when PDP was in the power Nigeria is developing abi? PDP is the agent who lead this country to what it is today ,so no need for black mailing anybody leave Mr. president out of this OK

Vixlot:


Yes, please include rigging in Rivers, Ekiti, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto as examples. Don't forget to include PDP sixteen years of writing results without votes

I strongly condemn rigging irrespective of the political party involve.

Rigging has no benefit to the people but to the politicians.

And that is what we should all stand against.

Hello mr. Kola. I hope I am not part of Nigerian you are referring to.

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Do I mentioned Buhari? I am not defending PDP but am asking for a system that will benefit us as a nation.

I am strong supporter of APC but I strongly condemn rigging as a mean of presenting our candidates to the people.

A political rerun

Inside life?

Is this PDP? The master of electoral fraud don dey fear to participate in election like the opposition feared some 12 to 20yrs ago?
No condition is permanent indeed

Nigeria a country is king thrown to the dogs...

Buhari can't fix the country, yet he's destroying the little one he met...

In a free and fair contest, Bello wouldn't have gotten 20 percent of total votes cast but he brazenly manipulated the results, rigged with helicopter, gun, police and inec and still have the temerity to show off with the dullard of a president.

I don't like pdp, but the best thing to do is boycott the election cos if u go to buhari court, the useless judge will throw out your case that since u agree to participate in the rerun abi supplementary election u already agree the initial one was credible and your case will be closed...


So let's not just give the useless judge easy boat to cruise......

Vixlot:


Yes, please include rigging in Rivers, Ekiti, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto as examples. Don't forget to include PDP sixteen years of writing results without votes

Ur brain is too dirty.

PDP rigged.
APC should rig.

Where is your brain?

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solmusdesigns:



Dude you might not be matured in your state and region, but here in Oyo State we vote candidate and who we want not party, i got first hand report on kogi election and heard many willingly sold their vote for small change of 2k, 3k so why should Nigerian democracy be blamed for kogi people's decission?

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solmusdesigns:



Dude you might not be matured in your state and region, but here in Oyo State we vote candidate and who we want not party, i got first hand report on kogi election and heard many willingly sold their vote for small change of 2k, 3k so why should Nigerian democracy be blamed for kogi people's decission?

probably you didn't get the full report that where vote buying failed killing, snatching of ballot boxes and manipulation of results in the collation Centre were administered.

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solmusdesigns:




PDP are already 40k vote down, it only makes sense they boycott the election and save their diginity



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U don't av to participate,Dino has gotten another job '' acting''

Hk

Pdp losers

Emedu:



probably you didn't get the full report that where vote buying failed killing, snatching of ballot boxes and manipulation of results in the collation Centre were administered.

But dino was caught on camera sharing money. Why is pdp now playing victim card. They are victim of their own greed

Emedu:


It is not all about PDP it all about our democracy.

You cannot continuously suppress the will of the people in the name of election.

Let it be known that we are not really matured enough to practice true democracy. We can decide to look for other means of appointing our leaders.

What makes u think the people don't prefer smart adeyemi. U wailers brain are already skewed to be biased

Emedu:
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has indicated interest to boycott the November 30, supplementary election for Kogi West rerun poll.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday, indicated that the party may not be participating in the supplementary poll for the senatorial axis.

The PDP spokesman specifically mentioned that the party has not only lost interest in the electoral umpire, but also rejected the scheduled supplementary election; an indication they might not participate in it.

The statement read in part: “After a further review of the November 16 elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) notes that it is now clearer to Nigerians that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) do not want democracy to thrive in Nigeria.

“The PDP and Nigerians in general have forcefully rejected the results bandied by INEC in the elections. We also reject the proposed Kogi West Senatorial rerun election, which has already been desecrated by the manipulations in the main election.

“As long as the figures in the main election are fundamentally flawed, the proposed rerun cannot reflect the wishes of the electorate and Nigerians are wondering if it will make any sense to participate in an electoral process that is already deficient.

“Nigerians across board have completely lost faith in the nation’s electoral process given that Independent National Electoral Commission under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has been annexed and cannot conduct any free, fair and credible election.

“For us in the PDP and, we believe, to majority of Nigerians as well, Professor Yakubu is the worst electoral umpire in the political history of our nation.

“Furthermore, the police and the military high commands have been reduced to tools of election brutality to ensure that votes do not count.

“Even the Police high command has openly admitted that the police is incapable of protecting voters and votes; thus validating the reported involvement of security agents in the brutalization of voters and disruption of electoral process.

“More distressing is the fact that Nigerians, particularly our members and supporters in Kogi and Bayelsa states, are still in trauma over the murderous November 16 elections.

“A lot of our people have been killed and our members are still grieving.“It is public knowledge that all accredited local and international observers, including the Civil Society Situation Room, have declared that the elections did not meet the minimum standard for credible election and have unanimously called for outright cancellation.

“There is indeed nothing to indicate that more people will not be massacred in the proposed Kogi West Senatorial re-run election. It is therefore doubtful if Nigerians will be prepared to participate in that re-run given their sordid experiences in the last election.

“There is already a growing consensus across the nation that participating in elections by INEC as presently constituted under the Buhari Presidency would amount to helping to legitimize illegitimacies and outright criminalities.

“Indeed, Nigerians are not ready to join in whitewashing INEC’s battered image as such would also amount to putting a lipstick on a pig.

“Moreover, there are reports in the public space that the APC-controlled Federal Government does not want Senator Dino Malaye in the Senate just because of his forthrightness in defending the interest of the people.

“Nigerians recall with shock how, at the presentation of the 2020 budget, Mr. President reportedly asked Senator Malaye “you, you mean you are still in this chamber?. A question which meaning cannot be farfetched.

“Our party has been made aware of how INEC and security apparatus have been instructed to use all means to stop Senator Dino from returning to the Senate. INEC had also blatantly refused to consider Senator Melaye’s petitions regarding the November 16 election.

“Nevertheless, the PDP remains strong and undeterred. Our party is aware of that fact that millions of Nigerians look unto our platform for strength and direction in their quest for freedom and preservation of their rights. For this, we will remain resilient till the end.

“This country belongs to all of us and nobody, no matter how highly placed, has the right to appropriate our common sovereignty for his or her anti-people purpose.

“However, as we forge on in this collective struggle, the PDP directs all flags at our national, state and local government secretariats to fly at half mast from Monday, November 25th to Wednesday, November 27th in honour of all those killed in Bayelsa and Kogi states by the APC and their thuggish collaborators.”

http://kogireports.com/kogi-west-senate-rerun-pdp-rejects-nov-30-supplementary-poll/?fbclid=IwAR3o4RHNZ_QjBwiv-XS24xGyl2KYZacZ4yNvHzqiI9Quz7W0NdSmV56fyHU

This is acceptance of defeat. You are just being paid back on what you know how to do best. Do or die that PDP is known for.......
If you boycott, it's your problem....

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