Kogi: Am Not Sure PDP Will Muster 25 Percent Vote Since They Are Not Campaigning – Smart Adeyei

  • Says APC not responsible for gunshot heard dring PDP’s primary.
  • Adeyemi says PDP’s camp is disunited.

The Director-General of the Kogi State governorship campaign committee of the All Progressives Party (APC), Smart Adeyemi, has said the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might not get 25% votes in the November 16 governorship poll.

Speaking ahead of the election, Adeyemi in an exclusive interview with Tribune expressed confidence that Bello will be returned elected again.

“I am not in doubt that Yahaya Bello deserves another term in office and I am not in doubt that people will vote for us. It is going to be like a miracle; I am not sure if the opposition will muster 25 percent votes. I, as the DG Campaign, I am disturbed that the oppositions are not campaigning; I have not seen their bill­boards; I have not seen their posters. I am disturbed that the oppositions are silent: they seem to be paralysed.

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“It is either they don’t have the resources to run or they are disunited. There is no unity of purpose in the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Today, they have about 30 of them in court against their candidate.

He added that it is therefore safe to say that the main opposition does not have a candidate yet because their candidate, Eng. Musa Wada still a subject of litigation.

“Until when court makes a pronou­ncement, PDP doesn’t have a candidate. So we are disturbed; we want them to have a candidate. We don’t want a free election; we want to engage them on issues that will help to promote democracy. But today nobody is available; they are not talking. It is either that they have conceded defeat or they are planning mayhem.

“But for us, we are not in doubt that we are going to win. We have a lot to show to the people of the state as achievements that have been recorded in the last four years,” he added.

While noting that the APC has not been able to unite and reconcile all the aspirants that contested with Governor Bello in the party’s primary, he said only very few of the aspirants are not with the party.

“More than three-quarters of them are with the governor. The APC is not like the PDP; the APC is more progressive and the people have large heart. When we had our primary, there was no gunshot but in that of PDP there were gunshots, not only in Kogi State, even in Bayelsa State. I heard people saying that perhaps the APC masterminded the gunshot at the PDP primary. But for what reason will that happen? We have no business being there; it is not a way of life of APC.

I have told the PDP that if they really want to know those who shot at their primary, what they need to do is to look at the names of the aspirants in the election and ask the police to give them a profile of each of them. They will discover that a good number of them are people you cannot vouch for in terms of their antecedent.”

Speaking further on the gunshot heard at the PDP primary, Adeyemi said the ruling party doesn’t have people with questionable character as aspirants.

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“We don’t have anybody in the APC that contested election that is having criminal charges. But in the PDP, there were people who contested the primary whose character is being questioned in the court of law; some of them are standing criminal charges in the court of law.

“Those are the ones to question as we have no business at their primary election. In this election, if they say one will be killed by a two-horn animal definitely it can’t be snail. The PDP is the snail; they are disunited and they lack focus. As it is today, the PDP is a dying party because of error of decision-taking and lack of sensitivity to the environment that they are. As it is today, we are set to subdue them and consume them in a non-violent manner,’ he added.

 

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