"APC has little or no faith in the promises and commitment of PDP"

Newly elected national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Oyegun was yesterday inaugurated with other members of the party’s new National Working Committee (NWC). Oyegun in a speech at the inauguration said the APC has little or no faith in the promises and commitment of the PDP led government to conduct a free and fear election in Ekiti. He said with the recent development beginning from attacks on APC members and other tactics, there is a need for explanation by the PDP on its intentions during the Ekiti elections. “The All Progressives Congress, APC, will not accept the outcome of the election in Ekiti unless the authorities provide convincing explanations to the series of questionable developments in recent times,” he said. The chairman said his first message to President Goodluck Jonathan is to discontinue the dangerous trend being pursued by the PDP as the fall out will be disastrous for Nigeria’s democracy. “In the last several days, many developments have occurred that have exposed the covert and criminal effort to subvert the rights of the citizens of Ekiti and the country’s electoral law. “Barely two Sundays ago, our supporters during a peaceful procession in Ekiti were tear gassed and infact one was killed,” he said. Oyegun said Governor Fayemi was also tear gassed and that he only escaped being shot adding that a week ago, a truck was intercepted with over 200 boxes of electoral materials by the security agents in Ekiti while on Tuesday, June 17, two loaded aircraft with undisclosed cargo, accompanied by a minister of State landed at the Akure airport. He said on Wednesday, June 18 , a gang was busted in a resort owned by one of the campaign managers of another candidate, thumb printing ballot papers ahead of the Saturday elections while 22 young men were also caught preparing INEC form EC8. He therefore maintained that there is a clear intention to subvert the elections. He said the PDP having earlier declared the Ekiti election as ‘war’ is now living true to that promise. Former Interim national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, in his speech, called on the leadership of the party to make sacrifices to take the party to victory in the 2015 general elections. He recalled that leaders of the were jeered at when they came to register. “But it is to the credit of our leadership, our members and indeed all Nigerians who yearn for a truly democratic nation that we surmounted all the odds and then turned our diversity into a great advantage,” he added.