The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged citizens to use the June 12 to accentuate demand for the entrenchment of democratic tenets in the country.
The party which took the position on Monday, according to a statement by it’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba described as distasteful, offensive and unacceptable for the nation to observe Democracy Day under a system that violated, desecrated and despoiled all the tenets of Democracy as witnessed in brazen rigging that characterized the 2023 general elections.
According to PDP, “The barefaced manipulations of the 2023 general elections by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), amounts to an unpardonable assault and rape of democracy and disregard for the Will of the people; the very ills which Chief MKO Abiola fought and died for.
“June 12 epitomizes the struggle by Nigerians against corrupt, manipulative and anti-democratic system; against injustice, impunity and electoral fraud which INEC, under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu now represents”.
The party said that it is heartrending that all the steady progress and gains made by successive PDP administrations in reforming of electoral system have been completely wiped off by INEC in the conduct of the 2023 general elections.
The party urged Nigerians not to despair but remain optimistic and law-abiding in their hope for a better nation which they earnestly yearn for.
It also charged all its leaders at all level across the country to be guided by the essence of June 12 by always adhering to the principles of democracy in the overall interest of the Nigerians people.
