Learn From Our Primary, PDP Tells INEC, APC

The PDP said yesterday that the orderliness, transparency and credibility of its presidential primary should serve as a direct lesson to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the governing APC on how elections should be conducted in present day Nigeria.

The party in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbindiyan, noted that the process has shown that the electoral umpire, in its manifest compromises, has been responsible for the electoral crises at various levels of elections.

PDP added that the scenario also shows that citizens, irrespective of their individual and group interests, are capable of holding peaceful and credible elections that meet global standards.

The statement made available to LEADERSHIP noted: "The success of our presidential primary followed our strict adherence to democratic rules and principles of transparency and fairness, which has eluded the nation since President Muhammadu Buhari-led licentious administration assumed office. Simply put, in the PDP Presidential primary, every vote counted.

"Nigerians are therefore no longer in doubt that our compromised electoral umpire, under the Buhari administration, is ostensibly culpable for injecting rancorous situations that create openings for violence, manipulations, inconclusive polls and outright rigging of elections.

"We invite the whole world to note that the PDP conducted its Presidential primary and a clear winner, Atiku Abubakar, emerged, without any form of disagreements or reliance on heavy security, showing that Nigerians are peaceful, orderly and desirous of credible processes at all levels of political engagement".