•Report by Kamil Opeyemi
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that the just concluded presidential election in the country shown that Nigerians had rejected the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Fayose made this assertion on Monday evening shortly after the PDP party agent, Dino Melaye walked out of collation centre, Abuja.
Melaye, Ihedioha and labour party agent protested at the national collation centre over the results of the presidential election as announced by states.
According to them, they want the INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu to instruct the SCOPE to upload the results from the ward level to the state on IRev and display it for the whole word to see before presentation/declaration.
They alleged that there were discrepancies in the results being announced in Abuja and what was recorded at polling units across the country.
Reacting, the former governor, Fayose via his Twitter handle on Monday commended Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and criticised the PDP for failing to take steps to address the crisis in the party which led to the setup of the G5 group.
According to him, If anyone in the party, PDP, thinks Nigerians loves or still want PDP as alternative, by now the message passed through the election should be enough for the person to see the reality on ground
“I commend the courage and resilience the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate HE. Peter Obi, for his uncommon and unprecedented outing and outcome of this election. It is not unexpected going by support he enjoys with Nigerians,” he said
“However, I cannot but berate the PDP which has no moral right to cry foul.
Those handling the party obviously knew this was going to be the outcome and possibly the end of their arrogance and sense of entitlement, especially bearing in mind they were the 2015 traitors.
“In life, they say what goes round comes round. Beyond this, does the PDP [want] to win an election with a fractured party that it is now? Kwankanso, Obi, etc were driven out of the party and they claimed they can win without the G5 Governors.
“Almighty’ Iyorchia Ayu, the National Chairman, even lost his Ward and Local Government to another party after cashing out like a man struck and stock with poverty. As it is now, PDP turning around to cry foul has no place with Nigerians. Not at all.
“Most importantly, election is a process and those not satisfied can vent their anger in court. It is therefore time to allow Nigeria and Nigerians to move on.
If you think Nigerians loves or still want PDP as alternative, by now the message should be instructive.
“The present managers of the PDP need to be told that the sympathy of Nigerians is not for the party. They should stop hiding under Peter Obi’s LP to pretend to have a sense of patriotism that they don’t have.
“Therefore, no sense of comradeship with Obi will work. After all, they knew his potentials, yet, he was not deemed fit for the party’s ticket and he was eased out. Today, he has retired all of them.
“Our candidate, H.E. Atiku Abubakar (aka ‘Atiku is coming’) should accept defeat in maturity and retire peacefully to Dubai. At this juncture, may I say good night and goodbye to all you represent.”