ABEOKUTA- The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun state has reteraited that its support for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 is not a validation of bad governance in Ogun state by the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The party’s publicity secretary, Otunba Arc kayode Adebayo in a statement made available to The News Ville, stated that the clarification became necessary owing to the falsehood being shared on some social media platforms.
Adebayo however added that the PDP’s endorsement of President Tinubu would not affect its candidates for the 2027 National Assembly elections and other State elections.
“The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ogun State has been drawn to another concoction of falsehood being shared on some social media platforms.
“The unfounded story has it that the Ogun PDP has openly endorsed the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC and effectively conceding defeat ahead of the August 16 bye election. What a blatant lie!
“Ordinarily, we are too busy with our party’s scheduled activities for our electioneering campaigns for the upcoming bye election and we can not afford to be distracted by some idle minds who seek to join us in their political misfortune.
“However, in order to set the records straight and insulate innocent members of the public from the APC’s litany of misinformation and deliberate twists of facts, we make bold to remind them, again, that the electoral victory recorded by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023 was the imperative of power shift to the South.
“Also, it is fundamentally germane to clarify that our endorsement of President Tinubu would not affect our party’s candidates for the 2027 National Assembly elections and other State elections.
“We were shocked that our comments about the poor contribution of Governor Dapo Abiodun to the landslide victory recorded by the President in Ogun State couldn’t catch the attention of the APC leadership to show remorse over.
“We mentioned that the INEC records have it that Governor DAPO ABIODUN lost his polling unit 002 *(Ita Osanyin where APC polled 112 votes against 119 votes scored by the PDP)* in the 2023 election as well as his ward IPERU III *(where APC got a total of 731 votes against 794 votes scored by the PDP)*.
“Rather than having the supporters of the Governor bury their heads in shame, they were busy twisting the story of what transpired at our campaign flag-off yesterday.
“The noise of wanting to use the instrumentality of the Office of the President to sway victory in favour of the APC in the coming bye election is a total mirage that the APC in Ogun State should erase from their minds.
“The coming bye election is not in any way connected to the reelection bid of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“We are not unaware of the reasons why the APC attempted to twist the core of the matter. It is a tactical way, for the APC, of accepting the reality of another round of electoral defeat in the bye election.
“Hence, it is difficult for them to separate the president, as an individual from the God forsaken APC, as a party. It is even more disturbing that APC could not talk about the call by PDP to reject APC in the coming bye election.
“The APC should be reminded that the called rejection of APC on August 16 Bye-Election is to serve as a punishment for bad governance and Mr. Abiodun’s manifest cluelessness”, the statement reads
