2019 guber: PDP wants Ambode disqualified

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State wants the Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, disqualified from the coming 2019 governorship election.
The PDP frowned at the recent three million man march for Governor Ambode, insisting that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not lifted the ban on political campaigns in the country.
The PDP frowned at the recent three million man march for Governor Ambode, insisting that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not lifted the ban on political campaigns in the country.
In a statement issued by the party’s publicity secretary, Mr Taofik Gani, the PDP said: “Unless INEC and Police exert their powers to guarantee credible election by at least giving their opinions on the recent three million man march for Governor Ambode, we shall deem the 2019 Lagos governorship election as already rigged for APC.”
It therefore called on INEC and the Police to enforce the law noting: “as we go into the 2019 general elections by using the disqualification and needful arrests of all those who are initiators, perpetrators and intended beneficiaries of pre-election malpractice capable of also overheating the polity and provoking confrontations and violence.”
The PDP said the 3 million man march by this time was a breach of the electoral act and elections guidelines as INEC had not declared political campaign permissible.
“We strongly believe that the exercise must have been directly induced, midwife and sponsored by the state government, using Lagos tax to overreach other persons and political parties in the 2019 elections.
“It is also laughable that an acclaimed performing governor can be so jittery of re-election that over 12 months to the contest, he is already using state funds to jump-start campaign even against the Electoral Act and good conscience.”
However, in a swift reaction, the Lagos state government has dismissed the PDP’s assertion stating that the governor would not be distracted by the unnecessary ranting from the opposition party.
Speaking through the state’s Commissioner for Home Affairs, Dr Abdul-Akeem Abdul-Lateef, the government said: “I want to assure Lagosians that Governor Ambode will not be distracted by the statement by the PDP. He will not be distracted by political Lilliputians whose current retrogression has compelled them to operate as dysfunctional silos.”

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