PDP Mocks Oshiomhole for Losing His State

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday mocked the National Chairman of the  All Progressive Congress (APC) for his failure to deliver his state, Edo to his party in last Saturday’s presidential election. 

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari winning the election, the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, defeated him in Edo State.

Reacting to a statement credited to Oshiomole, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, at a press conference in Abuja said Oshiomhile was not in the position to tell Nigerians who is electable or not. 

 Oshiomhole had claimed during a press conference in Abuja that Atiku lost the election because he was not electable.

But  Ologbodiyan stated categorically that Oshiomole was not someone his party could be proud of given the way he had run the ruling party, adding that neither Nigerians nor the opposition party took the APC’s boss or his utterances seriously. 

He stated: “He (Oshiomole) told the whole world that he will deliver 100 per cent vote for president Buhari in his ward. What did that tell you? That is pure rigging because there is nowhere in the whole world that everybody will be in one political party. It showed manifestly how much rigging Oshiomhoe is capable of. 

“Is it not strange that a sitting national chairman, it doesn't matter whether he is a factional chairman or not, that cannot deliver his state for his party, in spite of the fact that he has a sitting governor. Will it not bother him? That is a question that should bother his mind. 

“If truly the APC is a political party, that should bother them that they have a national chairman who woefully failed to deliver his State to his party. 

“I don't think anybody takes s Oshiomhole seriously in this country going by the manner he conducted primaries in his party, the internal democracy in his party,  going by the manner his presidential candidate was pelted in Ogun State with stones and water. 

“He will go down in history as a respected national chairman who conducted the affairs of his party very well.  It is rather unfortunate” he added.

Continuing he said: “It is manifestly clear to Nigerians what happened on February 23. The mood of the nation since the announcement of that result by  Mahmood Yakubu (INEC chairman) as to the wishes of Nigerians. The wishes of Nigerians was to get Atiku Abubakar elected. And now that they have used the instrument of power to rig us out, we will take the matter to the next level but not Buhari’s ‘next level’”.