The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has commended the people of Edo state for voting their choice leader, Governor Godwin obaseki and protecting their votes at the just concluded Saturday’s governorship election poll.
Briefing journalists in Abuja after INEC declares Obaseki as the winner, The PDP’s Spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan described the victory as historic and serves as a strong, viable, and unambiguous lesson to leaders.
Ologbondiyan noted that the party celebrates the resilience and courage exhibited by the people of Edo state in resisting the antics of the enemies of democracy who attempted to take over the political space of Edo state.
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The National publicity secretary urged President Muhammadu Buhari to continue in the newfound spirit of ensuring that the people are allowed to freely choose their leaders in all elections and asked him to continue to toe the new line of allowing electoral uprightness as history will be beckoned to be kind to him.
The opposition party said efforts of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC under Prof. Yakubu Mahmood in ensuring that the Edo election was conducted in a manner that was largely adjudged to be free, fair, transparent, and credible and hoped that what Nigerians have witnessed in Edo state will not be an off-season procedure in the commission but to apply it in upcoming elections.
The party commended the international community for the keen observation of the electoral processes as well as profiling of those who are bent on undermining our democracy and making free and fair elections appear impossible in Nigeria. It urged them and Lovers of democracy not to relent in providing necessary advisory to The leaders on the conduct of elections in the near future.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
