The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and All Progressives Congress (APC) raped democracy and dishonored the late Mashood Kashimawo Abiola.
PDP in its June 12, Democracy Day message signed by its national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, Monday urged Nigerians to use the June 12 Democracy Day to accentuate the demand for the entrenchment of democratic tenets in the country.
The party 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 alleged rigging that characterised the 2023 general elections.
Ologunagba stated further that: “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 Abiola fought and died for.
The statement read in part: “June 12 epitomises the struggle by Nigerians against the corrupt, manipulative and anti-democratic system; against injustice, impunity and electoral fraud which INEC, under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, now represents.
“It is indeed heartrending that all the steady progress and gains made by successive PDP administrations in reforming our electoral system have been completely wiped off by INEC in the conduct of the 2023 general elections.”