Anambra 2021: PDP vows to resist rigging
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it will resist any attempt to rig or manipulate the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, even as it called on the party’s stakeholders in the State to mobilise their people to register to vote, adding that all votes must count in the election.
National Vice Chairman of the party, South East zone, Chief Ali Odefa, who stated this in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, while addressing Anambra indigenes resident in the state, during visit of the governorship candidate of PDP, Chief Valentine Ozigbo, threatened that anyone, who manipulated the results might not be alive to tell the story.
Odefa, who also reiterated that the election must be free, fair and credible, added that no agents of government or political party would manipulate election results again in Nigeria.
He noted that Anambra governorship election would be used by the party to continue to protect the nation’s democracy and urged the electorate to protect their votes, insisting that votes must count at the poll.
“Anambra election, you will write the result but you will not live to see the result. If you attempt to write Anambra governorship election result, you will die. This is democracy, elections must be free and fair; whether you are the ruling party at the federal, at the state, at the local government, you cannot write result of elections in Nigeria again.
“Mobilize our people let them go and register to vote. Anambra is where we will use as a test case to continue to protect the democracy of Nigeria. Your votes must count, it must count. We will vote and we will stay and watch our votes, they cannot write the results, it is not possible.
“Even in Ebonyi here, they keep saying ‘I am connected to the centre, I will write the result’. Where will you stay and write the results? Where will you stay and write Ebonyi results or Anambra results? It is not possible. Before you will write the results in Anambra or Ebonyi, write your will and share your property first. As God will liberate Anambra in November 6, by February 2023, God will liberate Ebonyi State”.
Odefa described Ozigbo as a man that would bring Anambra out of their current trouble and take them to the promise land.
Ozigbo who was in Ebonyi to meet Anambra indigenes resident in the state, while addressing the people, described Friday Appeal Court verdict, which which declared him the validly elected candidate of the PDP as victory for democracy, the people of Anambra State and those, who took him to court.
