Buhari’s visit to Delta, a ploy to rig gov poll —PDP | Nairalaw

The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has
raised the alarm over the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to
the state, describing the visit as a ploy to rig Saturday’s
elections.

Buhari, who was recently re-elected for a second term, visited
Warri on Monday for another round of campaigns specifically for the
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Chief
Great Ogboru.

The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza,
said the visit was a ploy to rig Saturday’s elections in favour of
the APC candidates.

Osuoza, who stated this on Monday in Asaba, condemned President
Buhari’s moves and schemes to rig Delta State’s governorship
election as earlier boasted by the National Chairman of the APC,
Adams Oshiomhole.

He said, “As President Muhammadu Buhari visits Warri for the
second time in two months, it is not a surprise that tongues are
wagging among the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that the
trip is in bad taste, as the party supporters and Deltans in
general are wondering why the President has always limited his
visits to a microscopic Warri and ignoring the larger areas of the
state.”

He advised Buhari not to get involved in sinister contrivances
by using his office as President to manipulate the electoral
process.

“We say this because of the March 9, 2019 governorship and state
Houses of Assembly elections, as we have it on good authority that
Buhari’s trip is not altruistic, and has nothing to do with the
good and progress of Delta State,” he stressed.

Responding, the state Publicity Secretary of the All
Progressives Congress, Sylvester Imonina, described the allegation
as a blackmail taken too far by the PDP.

He said, “For the sake of peace-loving Deltans, the visit of Mr
President is to enable him to have a town hall meeting with Deltans
in order to know in details, the yearnings and aspirations of
Deltans.”

He said that the alarm raised by the PDP was unconnected with
the air of defeat blowing in the home and gathering of the PDP in
the state.