Lagos State House of Assembly has taken the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the cleaners over its desperation to regain Ekiti State by every possible means, which includes rigging, violence and other ruthless tactics.
The position of the Lagos House of Assembly was made known yesterday by the chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy, Security and Publicity, Hon Segun Olulade, representing Epe Constituency II.
The House was reacting to the purported arrest made by the Department of State Security in Ekiti over illegal thumb-printing of fake ballot papers by loyalists of PDP gubernatorial candidate, Ayodele Fayose, ahead of the governorship election, which takes place this Saturday.
“The attempt by PDP to forcefully regain Ekiti is a wishful thinking, not even a dream. The party is making every ruthless effort to choke Ekiti people into accepting a tyrant model being imported by Ayo Fayose from Abuja. We believe that Ekiti people are learned people and very wise. I have no doubt that the people will stand and defend their mandate of the choice of Governor Kayode Fayemi.
“All attempts being employed by PDP have failed. First was the attempt to use a PDP man in police uniform to discourage followers of Dr Fayemi by shooting at a peaceful rally, leaving an APC supporter dead; then the attempt to distribute expired rice and food items to woo the people; and now they have started thumb-printing illegally ahead of the election”, the House said.
The lawmakers, who commended the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, for taking an honourable position in the shooting case, also commended operatives of the State Security Service for the arrest of the hoodlums who were thumb-printing into ballot boxes.
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