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Stolen Mandate: You Have Lost Your Purpose – APC Slams PDP

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1 year ago

Nov 17, 2023.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fired back at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for suggesting that the ruling party was working with the election petition tribunal to steal its mandate.

This online media platform had earlier reported that the PDP accused the APC of using highly compromised election petition courts to snatch elections it won.

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The opposition party accused the APC of emasculating the opposition and imposing a one-party system on the country.

However, responding to the allegations in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, the ruling party said PDP had become a liability to democracy.

The party alleged that PDP’s harsh criticism of the judiciary threatened the country’s democracy.

‘The PDP has maligned and poured invectives on our judges at every turn since its miserable performance in the general elections.

“When it is not accusing judges of bias or corruption, it is calling for the disbandment of some judicial panels. Yet, the same party has been the biggest beneficiary of the vibrancy and independence of the judiciary since the country’s return to civilian democracy in 1999. In its psychotic hypocrisy, the PDP screams to high heavens when court judgements are against it, but jubilantly extols verdicts by the same judiciary in its favour. Such anti-democratic and insanely manipulative politics is wrong and has got to stop. Indubitably, the PDP has lost its purpose, its essence, if it ever had any,” Morka said.

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