The Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said the outcome of the Osun State governorship election is a red card to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 general election.
PDP in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the Interim National Working Committee (INWC) Ini Ememobong, said the result from Osun election was “an advance payment by Nigerians against the APC, the balance will come in 2027, when Nigerians will send packing the most ineffective and destructive political class in the history of Nigeria, post-independence.”
The party condemned what it described as the failure of national institutions to maintain neutrality in the election.
Particularly, PDP pointed at the alleged partiality of security agencies, especially the police, and the freezing accounts of state government by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), describing it as “dangerous and anti-democratic.”
The party stated that the more than two-hour delay in uploading the results of the 470 polling units by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), “are acts that are not just condemnable but are actions capable of derailing democracy.”
PDP however advised Nigerians not to rest on their oars as the 2027 elections approach, but to vote, protect and defend their votes.
“They must not think that having failed in Osun, the APC and its accomplices in the critical national institutions will repent of their ill deeds.
“They will rather seek to learn from the failings in Osun, to perfect their dark art of subverting the wishes of the people,” the party stated.
PDP said election results must be reflective of the wishes of the people freely expressed through the ballot, “and not the enforcement of the whims and caprices of a privileged minority of oppressors.
“And to achieve this, Nigerians must never forget that the price for eternal freedom is vigilance.”
