Like NPP in Ghana, APC days in office are numbered – PDP

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate and Ghana’s president-elect, Mr. John Mahama, has received congratulations from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on winning the election.

The Ghanaian electoral commission proclaimed Mahama the victor of Saturday’s presidential election on Monday night.

Ghana’s Vice President and the nominee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mahamudu Bawumia, was defeated by Mahama.

Mahama, who served as president from 2012 to 2017, received 6.3 million votes, or 56.5 percent of the total.

PDP spokesperson Mr. Debo Ologunagba said in a statement that the NDC’s win is a “clear demonstration of the triumph of the power of the people over misrule and oppressive policies of government as now being witnessed in Nigeria under the All Progressives Congress (APC)”.

“The verdict of the people of Ghana in this presidential election is a signal to the APC that its days in office are numbered, as the power of the people in Nigeria, just like in Ghana, will surely prevail, end the APC’s oppressive rule, and return Nigeria to the path of good governance, security, political stability, and economic prosperity on the platform of the PDP in 2027”, the statement reads.

Ologunagba claimed that many Nigerians are now impoverished as a result of the APC government’s economic policies.

“Also unacceptable to Nigerians is that our once-thriving nation, which ranked as a preferred destination for international foreign investment capital and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies under the PDP, has been brought to its knees by the APC with decayed infrastructure, a comatose economy, worsening insecurity, and social uncertainties occasioned by ill-conceived and ill-implemented macroeconomic policies”, the PDP spokesperson said.

“More distressing is that while Nigerians are subjected to harrowing hardship, APC leaders remain unconcerned and unaccountable, imposing harsh taxes and recklessly looting the nation’s treasury to finance their luxury appetites and consumption while arrogantly treating Nigerians as though they are a conquered people.

“Major multinationals are now leaving our country in droves, and life has become so unbearable that our citizens, particularly the youths, are now resorting to suicide or slavery missions abroad as an alternative because of the monumental misrule and insensitivity of the APC.”

Ologunagba added that Nigerians are “earnestly” seeking a return of the “golden years of the PDP in government as their only hope for survival and triumph of their dreams, aspiration, and collective will as a people”.

Earlier between PDP and APC on Ondo election

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Mr. Myson Nejo, and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr. Agboola Ajayi, vehemently disagreed with the results of Ondo governorship election, calling it “daylight robbery”.

The PDP’s State Collation Agent, Olaniyi Ogungbuji, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of spending more than N35 billion to sway voters in the Ondo State gubernatorial election on behalf of the party’s candidate.

Additionally, Ogungbuji said that some polling places in the Idanre Local Government Area did not allow voting.

He said: “This is the end result of the election, but I can tell you that APC as a party deployed over N35 billion to induce the electorate.

“If this is the future of this nation, I think we are doomed.”

Ogungbuji went on to say that the party leadership and its candidate, Mr. Ajayi, would decide the next course of action in the days ahead.

“I will report back to him (Ajayi) and the party, and they will decide on the appropriate action,” he said.

ADC candidate attacks election behavior

The ADC candidate, Mr. Myson Nejo also criticized the way the Ondo gubernatorial election was conducted.

He pointed to blatant vote-buying.

Despite the setback, Nejo said he was satisfied with his decision to not participate in vote-buying, which he said caused him to lose.

He stated: “I thank the good people of Ondo State for voting for me without accepting any money, and they still voted for me.

“I want to believe my vote is a valid vote because there was nothing unethical on my side.

“So far, I want to believe I’m a winner in this election”.

Nejo called the practice concerning and revealed that votes were being purchased for up to N20,000.

He recalled, “In my polling unit, it was between N10,000 and N15,000, and people were buying votes for N20,000 or N15,000.

“However, I only had two votes in my unit and roughly 40 votes overall because I was broke and told them I wouldn’t pay a kobo to buy votes.

“I don’t care, though. I refused to back down when others contacted to demand money in return for their votes.

“They ought to cast their ballots if they so desired. I refused to pay a dime to purchase votes”, he added.

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