Violence, Impunity mar Ondo LG poll

The PDP Situation Room Reports from across the eighteen Local Governments Areas of the State have proved that the PDP was very right to have boycotted the charade called Local Government elections. It was an exercise marked with shameless impunity, unpardonable brigandage and violence.

Twenty four hours before the election, APC thugs unleashed violence on opposition parties in Ondo town, Idanre and Owo that attempted to participate in the Election. In thousands of polling units, neither voting materials nor ODIEC personnel were seen at about noon on election day. Where they were seen, ballot papers were in short supply.

We have been vindicated by all the actions of ODIEC and its Pay Masters as incapable of conducting free and fair elections. They should go ahead and announce the Election Results as previously compiled in all the Wards and Local Government Areas.

ODIEC has not only failed the people of Ondo State. It should be disbanded as a matter of urgency, because their outing is not only a sham but shameful.

Kennedy Ikantu Peretei.
State Publicity Secretary, PDP, Ondo State.

ONDO GOVERNMENT REACTS

“ We can appreciate the level of despondence, lack of focus as well as the unpreparedness of the PDP as far as any electoral contest is concerned in Ondo.

For one, we sympathise and indeed, acknowledge that the internal wrangling within the already beleaguered group known as a political party are potent enough to dissuade same from commitment to wherever measure aimed at deepening democracy.

For the records, we have a prize in sight. We therefore, conscientiously do whatever humanly logical and accessible to ensure peace to sustain our speed to train that prize.

Those with no such hope, can best be appreciated and their limitations accepted as human, if they choose to make efforts to discredit the system. ” Donald Ojogo, Commissioner for Information and Orientation said.