PDP Accuses APGA Of Orchestrating Protest Against Tribunal Verdict In Abia

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)<br />, National Secretary Labaran Maku

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for sponsoring a cosmetic protest in Abia State against the verdicts of election tribunals.”

The PDP said, in a statement yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the protest was a class display of shameful desperation by a political party that was defeated in duly conducted elections, and at the election tribunals.

“For record purposes, the PDP wishes to remind APGA that our candidates in national and state elections out rightly defeated them and we have no apologies for that. In the same vein, APGA need not be told that in the governorship election, they were comprehensively vanquished by the PDP candidate, who is by all measures, the true choice of the people.”

The PDP also taunted its rival by declaring that APGA’s main identity, after the passage of its founder, Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu, has been the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, who is now a committed member of the PDP.

“Nigerians are aware that the weight, strength and financial muscle of APGA was concentrated in Anambra Central Senatorial zone in the elections, only for their candidate, their former National Chairman, (Chief Victor Umeh) to be completely overwhelmed, outmatched, dazed and roundly defeated by the PDP candidate.

The people of the South East have in many ways, including the 2015 general elections, shown their support and faith in the PDP. Even in Imo state, the only state which was fraudulently taken from the PDP in the zone, the citizens have been groaning and hoping that the judiciary, as the last hope of the common man, would recover their mandate stolen at the governorship election,” said the PDP.