Listen to Tinubu, vote out APC in Edo, says Group

A pro-democracy group, Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and

Constitution (CDNDC), has urged the electorate in Edo to learn from the

ordeal of Senator Bola Tinubu in the hands of the national chairman of the

All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun and vote out the APC in

Wednesday’s governorship election.
The group, which has been consistent in raising awareness on the

governorship  poll, described the latest statement credited to the APC

national leader and former governor of Lagos State as a “timely warning to

the good people of Edo state to do away with the APC.”

In a statement yesterday in Abuja signed by its co-convener, Ariyo-Dare

Atoye, the group said “the injustice done to Tinubu is a reminder of how

the embattled national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, and Governor

Adams Oshiomhole conspired and hijacked the APC governorship primary to

impose a puppet-candidate.
“We wish to urge the good people of Edo state to do away with the APC in

the Heartbeat of the nation on September 28 , as this will commence the

liberation of Nigerians from the chains of the APC.

“The party is anything but democratic and it will continue to betray the

people’s trust like the APC did in the last four years in Edo State and is

also currently doing at the national level.
“We wish to urge the people of Edo state to carefully take note of some

very informed lines in the statement from the  Tinubu Media Office and

their deep implications for democracy:
“Oyegun's comportment regarding the Ondo state primary (inclusive of Edo

primary) will become the textbook definition of political treachery and

malfeasance of the basest order.
“Thus, Oyegun was forced to undertake his desperate fraud in broad

daylight in order to salvage the wrong conspiratorially initiated and

unconscionably executed in the Ondo APC primary.
“To choke the APC in this manner is to kill the chance for progressive

reform for the foreseeable future and Edo state must detach itself from

that perilous future.”
The group said that it was happy that Tinubu has now seen the light while

in “a gloomy party,” and has also seen how puerile the unconstitutional

title of “National Leader of APC” is.
The group, however, said that it was not unlikely that Tinubu may be

forced to consider mustering his charisma and sagacity to chart a new

political trajectory, stressing that his comment: “I find greater honor

and comfort where democracy and fairness are found and respected,” is a

pointer in this direction.
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