By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – The Peoples Democratic Party has commended the judiciary for its courage to stand on the side of the people to jail one of the corrupt returning officers, who connived with Senator Godswill Akpabio of the All Progressives Congress to rewrite election results against the PDP in the 2019 general elections.
Precise Post recalls that Prof. Peter Ogban was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison for manipulating the result of Akwa-Ibom Northwest senatorial election and attempting to foist the APC and its candidate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on the people.
The party said the three years jailed term handed to Prof. Peter Ogban, will serve as a deterrent for compromised individuals working for the APC to subvert the will of the people.
The PDP stated this in a statement released via it’s twitter handle shortly after the court sentenced the rigging Professor.
The PDP maintained that the long arm of the law will soon catch up with other corrupt returning officers, including some shameless professors who were heavily bribed and compromised by the APC to alter results and rig it into power at various levels in the 2019 general elections.
“It is shameful that individuals who had attained the peak of enviable career in the academia could submit themselves as willing tools in the hands of a fraudulent, debased and manipulative political party, like the APC, to alter election results and subvert the collective will of the people in the 2019 elections.”
“Such individuals can now see the deplorable situation of economic depression, excruciating hardship, terrorism, killings, kidnapping, social and infrastructural decay, which their fraudulent and unpatriotic action has plunged our nation.
According to the party, “If these unpatriotic elements had not manipulated our electoral process in favour of APC and allowed the will of the people to prevail, our nation would not have found herself in this sorry state.
“Our party holds that this courageous judgment would stand as a deterrent to the compromised returning officers and a signal to the APC that result alterations will have no space in the 2023 general election.
“Ahead of the off season elections as well as the 2023 general elections, the PDP urges Nigerians and the INEC to remain vigilant as more effort is being made to bring other compromised electoral officers, who brought the present misfortune on our nation, to book,” the party added.
