Bode George Speaks on Atiku’s Loss: “PDP Crisis Made Manipulation of 2023 Election Easy”
- More debate has continued in the polity regarding the election victory of Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC
- Interestingly, Peter Obi of the Labor Party and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP have headed to the Supreme Court to challenge Tinubu's victory after the tribunal's judgement in September
- However, a strong PDP chieftain, Bode George has claimed the crisis within the PDP led to the manipulation of the 2023 election
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The former vice chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has claimed that the crisis in the party made it easier for the 2023 presidential elections to be manipulated.
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Recall that the PDP flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, is currently challenging the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress at the Supreme Court.
Speaking in an interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, October 18, the PDP chieftain stated that the party was divided into factions, making it easier for the results of the election to be manipulated.
As reported by Vanguard, he argued that if the PDP had respected its constitution and zoned its presidential ticket correctly, the party would have easily won the 2023 election despite the manipulation.
He stated thus:
"The real postmortem analysis has to be done behind closed doors and not for public hearing. However, everybody now knows there’s no oneness in our party. It was a divided party, and so the opposition was able to manipulate.
“It’s not a matter of discipline or indiscipline; it is well stated in the constitution of the party; we deviated from it, and we were put straight down; they gave us an uppercut.
“They manipulated the result of the elections, as we can see. What bothered me was that Professor Yakubu told us that they have gotten a new system, and we are going to use an electronic system. Only to be told on the day that they had a glitch and reverted to the manipulation of the past.
“So, we are in court, and we will see what is going to happen. However, imagine if the party was a solid rock; nobody would ‘cheat’ us.”
George also stated that regardless of the decision of the Supreme Court, the party must be ready for reconciliation to return itself to its glory days.
PDP crisis: Why Wike, Makinde, others should not join APC
Meanwhile, PDP leader Bode George has urged aggrieved G5 governors of the party not to leave the umbrella party for the APC ahead of the 2027 general election.
The PDP leader expressed confidence that the leading opposition party will get over its challenges and bounce back.
According to Bode George, the APC also has some cracks in its walls, and every political party have its challenges.
“Obi not Tinubu won 2023 presidential election” - Ex-SGF, Babachir Lawal
In another report, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has said that Labour Party (LP) flagbearer, Peter Obi, won the February 25, 2023, presidential election and not President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Lawal, a close ally of Tinubu, made this disclosure on Tuesday, October 17, in a chat with newsmen, asserted that available factual data as aggregated from several independent sources indicated that Obi got the majority votes while Atiku came second in the election.
According to him, Tinubu came a distant third in the number of votes scored.
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