THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Enugu State Campaign Council has dismissed the statements by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate, Frank Nweke, and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Chijioke Edeoga, deprecating the outcome of the 2023 governorship election in the state. The party insisted that the people of Enugu State rose above clan, religious denomination, and party divides to elect the PDP candidate, Dr. Peter Mbah, as the best-prepared for the job.
Leading opposition parties in the state have all rejected the declaration of Mbah as the winner of the election. They have all indicated intention to challenge the outcome of the polls before the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. But, in a statement issued on behalf of the party in Enugu weekend, through the Director of Communications and spokesperson of the Campaign Council, Nana Ogbodo, weekend, the PDP commended the governor-elect for extending olive branch to the opposition candidates.
Ogbodo however threatened that the party would undress the oppositions’ hypocrisy, and violent tendencies, if they failed to accept the olive branch and be part of the new Enugu Sate that Mbah was rearing to build. He said: “We commend and align with our governorship candidate, Dr. Peter Mbah’s in the olive branch that he extended to the opposition candidates. We applaud his statesmanship. However, we will meet them at the tribunal if they so choose. It is actually the right place to undress their hypocrisy, violent tendencies, and misuse of security agencies and vital intuitions of democracy for the world to see.