THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed claims that a Senator rigged election on behalf of it.

The opposition party stated this on Sunday, while reacting to the request by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) on Saturday urging it to confess its sins against Nigerians like the lawmaker did.

Former senate president, Ibrahim Mantu, had in an interview on Channels Television, revealed that he rigged elections for the PDP.

In response, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on said Mr Mantu’s reported claims are personal to him and has nothing to do with the PDP.


Ologbondiyan said the party has never directed any of its members to rig election on its behalf at any point since its formation.

“Senator Mantu spoke about his personal activities and tendencies in the elections where he participated. The PDP has never directed or had any pact with him to rig election on its behalf. Never!

“Individuals run their elections on the platform of political parties once they emerge as candidates. In the PDP, candidates are issued with the party’s Code of Conduct containing the basic rules of electioneering engagements.

“There is nowhere in this rules of engagement where candidates or party members are directed to rig elections on behalf of the party. If any member’s conduct transgressed these basic rules of engagement, that individual did not act on behalf of the PDP, and as such the party cannot be vicariously held responsible.

“It will therefore be misplaced for anybody, including the APC, to surmise that Senator Mantu, in the said confession of rigging, acted on behalf of the PDP.

“After all, in 2007, Senator Mantu lost his own senatorial election. What, then, happened to his rigging machinery, if he could not deliver himself.

“We urge the APC to manage its manifest failures in party administration as well as its incompetent, lack-lustre and wobbling governance which has grounded the nation’s economy and brought hunger and starvation to our people,” the statement said.

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“After all, in 2007, Senator Mantu lost his own senatorial election. What, then, happened to his rigging machinery, if he could not deliver himself.

Omeokachie:
A man confessed to having rigged elections, and the security agencies are not inviting him to give account, talk less of charging him to court to denying people their true representation.

What we have instead is the government in power using a serious issue to play politics with the hope that it would away people to vote for them instead of the PDP.

Are Americans looking at the Republicans, or are they going for the jugular of Moscow for 'messing up' their election?

Omeokachie:
A man confessed to having rigged elections, and the security agencies are not inviting him to give account, talk less of charging him to court to denying people their true representation.

What we have instead is the government in power using a serious issue to play politics with the hope that it would away people to vote for them instead of the PDP.

Are Americans looking at the Republicans, or are they going for the jugular of Moscow for 'messing up' their election?

Remember Senator Ibrahim Mantu? He was the deputy senate president accused by Mallam Nasir el-Rufai of demanding N50 million to facilitate his clearance as ministerial nominee in 2003. He was the man who grounded a British Airways flight from Abuja to London because they couldn’t get him a first class seat. He was the chairman of the constitution review committee that tried to gift President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term in 2007. He has now confessed, on video, how he helped the PDP to rig elections in the past. If not that Nigeria is the way it is, he should be in police net by now; rigging, according to our electoral laws, is a criminal offence. But it is not Nigeria? Disgusting......Simeon Kolawole

madridguy:

temitofa:


If you are a student, I don't think u will be doing well in your studies with time you spend on nairaland to commend on almost every post.
If you are a job seeker, my I don't u will ever get a job like this oh. And as a businessman, am sorry for business.

Nairaland na your Job? And not even reasonable comments.

I bow for U oh.

uba1991:
oh my God. I av never seen a useless party like PDP, A man rigged election as PDP candidate and he flies PDP flag during d period of his governance, he was given d post of deputy senate President under d umbrella of PDP. Now that he confess his sins d useless party who also apologized to Nigerians said the man is on his own. these idiots does not deserved Nigerian's forgiveness, dos CROOKS can never change

musicwriter:
If he rigged election, they should put him jail based on his confession. What type of a country is this??!!