2023 Election One of the Best in This Country, I am Not in APC, I am a PDP Chieftain –Idahosa
According to THE SUN newspaper, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Charles Idahosa, has described the 2023 general election as one of the best Nigeria ever had.
Charles Idahosa (photo credit: TRIBUNE)
He stated this in a reaction to comments by the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, describing the last poll as the worst in Nigeria’s history.
According to Idahosa, the 2023 elections remained one of the best in the country with the kind of upsets it created and new colouration in the National Assembly where not less than eight political parties won seats.
The PDP Chieftain alleged that the Cardinal’s claim was sponsored propaganda by opposition parties in a final effort to influence the outcome of their cases at the Presidential Election Petition Court. He stressed that President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu having been sworn-in, and parties opposed to his declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as winner of the February 25th presidential election, in court to challenge his victory, comments such as that made by Onaiyekan should be shunned.
His words: “President Tinubu has been sworn in and the court is sitting. Look at the timing that Onaiyekan spoke, when we are waiting for the judgment of the court? They must have shopped for this kind of statement at this critical time. I have been in politics for over 40 years so those of us who participated are the ones that would say whether this is not a fair election.
“What he said is very shocking because he doesn’t know anything about the elections, this is one of the best elections in this country ever. I am not in APC, I am a PDP chieftain and you know what we went through. An election where Tinubu lost Lagos, somebody would come out to say that if anybody is going to rig elections, will he not rig his place? An election where Buhari lost Katsina, 10 sitting governors lost senate seats, that means their states were divided into three and they couldn’t win and somebody would come and say this is the worst election.”
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