Feb 23: PDP seeks UN help

The PDP has decided to petition the United Nations over the role allegedly played by the Nigerian military in the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, disclosed this while addressing journalists after the party’s expanded caucus meeting on Monday in Abuja.

He said that the party would also report the role of the military to other global democratic institutions.

The party decried the alleged “militarisation of South-South ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state house of assemblies elections.”

He said that the PDP presidential candidate would go to court to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.

“The party’s caucus also commends Nigerians for refusing the harassment, intimidation and militarization of the electoral process and for participating in the elections,” Mr Ologbondiyan said.

The PDP National Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus, who also spoke, said the decision of the party to seek legal redress on the just concluded presidential election was informed by the alleged rigging of the polls.

Mr Secondus alleged that not only were voters harassed, the ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were also intimidated to rig the elections.

“Our leaders are not talking and if you don’t speak against evil, it will consume everybody. The National Peace Committee is not saying anything.

“If nothing is done, we (party) will nosedive and go deeper and deeper in this situation we have found ourselves,” he said.

Mr Secondus called for the immediate release of the PDP presidential candidate’s son-in-law, Babalele Abdullahi, and his personal lawyer, Uyiekpen Osagie, alleged to have been arrested by the anti-graft agency, EFCC.