Ekiti PDP To Challenge Results Of National Assembly Election At Tribunal

The chairman , Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Gboyega Oguntuwase , on Sunday said the party was ready to challenge the results of the National Assembly election conducted in the state at the election tribunal .

He said the conduct of the election defied all decent , civilised and acceptable approaches to democracy.

He spoke in an interview in Ado Ekiti , the state capital .

Oguntuwase
said , “The presidential , National Assembly and House of Assembly
elections in the state were characterised by violence , ballot
snatching, ballot stuffing , vote- buying and threat to lives .

“
The entire state was riddled with uncivilised attitude to politics ,
all in a bid by the All Progressives Congress to win all available seats
in the state by all means .

“ Our party has resolved not to
allow this rape of democracy go unchallenged , hence our resolve to
approach the judiciary as the only democratic process available.

“
We have given all our candidates in the National Assembly election the
go- ahead to pursue their cases at the tribunal because if the broad
daylight robbery against democratic attitudes go unchallenged , it is
going to consume the nation and our democratic norms and process . ”

The
PDP chairman hinged the resolve to challenge the National Assembly
election on the party ’s commitment to purifying the system .

He
said the team of lawyers being lined up by the party for the legal
battle would be disclosed at a later date “ for tactical reasons. ”

He
said the party might not contest the results of House of Assembly
election where he claimed the APC perpetrated all known electoral
offences , but that the party ’s National Assembly candidates would
challenge the results .

But the state Publicity Secretary of the
APC , Ade Ajayi, dismissed the allegations against the party , saying
the elections held in the state were peaceful .

Ajayi , however , commended the PDP for deciding to the approach the tribunal .

He
said , “ We will meet them there. They are free to go to court . They
have the constitutional backing. I commend them for not resorting to
violence . When we get to the courts , we will defeat them again because
the truth will always prevail .