PDP Accuses APC of Murdering Democracy, Threatens Legal Action

Urges Buhari not to assent the electoral bill

Chuks Okocha

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of murdering democracy and democratic processes in the country.
He said that his party would take legal action to address the passage of the electoral bill that it described as a scam.

Addressing a press conference yesterday, Secondus also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to save democracy in Nigeria by not signing the bill into law.

Reacting to what happened in the National Assembly yesterday and Thursday over the partial passage of the electronic transfer of election results.

The national chairman of PDP asked,“How a representative of the people enjoying their mandate blatantly turned their back on them and toed the line of a political party interest that is clearly against the people.”

Secondus said that “By the choice of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to put party interest before National interest, they have vividly murdered democracy by the actions of their members in the two chambers of the National Assembly yesterday and today. For us in PDP, today is a Black Friday for democracy.

“It’s an established fact in all democracies world-wide that a free, fair and credible election is the tripod of any democracy. The action of APC in swaying their members against electronic transmission of election results clearly undermines and shows in unmistaken terms that APC is not ready to face the Nigerian electorates,” the national chairman of PDP stated.

According to Secondus, “It also shows that the dilly-dallying of APC all the while in amending the Electoral Act is deliberate as they never wanted from inception to do anything that will deepen democracy in our country.”
He explained further, “This is notwithstanding that the party is a huge beneficiary of Electoral Reform carried out by the PDP administration.

“We therefore unequivocally condemn and reject the amendment of Electoral Act as passed by the National Assembly and urge President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil his anti-corruption crusade and see this as corruption and the big scam.”

He said that the PDP will take all necessary legal steps to ensure that this APC scam is not allowed to stand in any way.

Secondus called on all lovers of democracy who see free, fair and transparent election as vital, to stand up against this fraud.

He commended members of the PDP in the two chambers for standing up for democracy when it mattered most, saying that “History will be favourable to them”.

The national chairman of the PDP urged the Press as vanguard in the democratic struggle to take up their arms against what he described as anti-democratic action.