PDP Inaugurates National Campaign Council for Ondo

People’s Democratic Party, PDP has inaugurated Ondo gubernatorial national campaign council at the party headquarters in Abuja on Friday

TheConscience reports that the National Chairman of the Party, Prince Uche Secondus at the event inaugurated the council ahead of the October 10 gubernatorial election in the Sunshine State of the South Western zone of Nigeria where it will field Barrister Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, the former state commissioner for justice and attorney general as the party flag bearer

Prince Secondus said, “The choice of this formidable campaign team was carefully done by the party leadership to achieve the desired result. The main goal of this National Working Committee, NWC, is to recover all original PDP states currently in the hands of the opposition.

“On September 19, 2020 by God’s grace and the dogged efforts of both National and state Campaign Committees, Edo state will return to the PDP. We expect to carry the euphoria of Edo victory to Ondo on October 10 and relieve the good people of Ondo from the bad governance witnessed in that state in last three and half years.

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“Your Excellencies, leaders of our great party, your committee has this huge responsibility of helping the people of Ondo State realize their dream of making their choice the way they desire.

“At this juncture, I am reiterating my earlier call on President Muhammadu Buhari and his party the APC, to ensure that the election field is made level for all to enable the good people of Ondo state make their choice without hindrance of any kind.

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“This government can do this by ensuring that they respect the Constitution and the Electoral Act as well as the ruling of Supreme Court of Nigeria that say that security operatives particularly the military should not meddle on election matters outside providing adequate and equal security to all the parties within the requirements of the law.

PDP therefore expects that in both Edo and Ondo states elections, the military should be kept out of it completely and Police and other security agencies who are supposed to be at election venues should be made to operate within the dictates of the law.

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‘The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should refuse to be intimidated and strive to always carry out their duties strictly as set out by the law. Intelligence available to us shows that the out-going APC Government in Ondo state in its panic has hurriedly gone ahead to launch the local security outfit AMOTEKUN, with the aim of deploying them to intimidate and harass opponents.

“The good people of Ondo State also deserve this better governance than what they are getting with APC now. I wish you success in this huge task and I hereby INAUGURATE this committee.”