The Nasarawa State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has said that the PDP and its governorship candidate, David Umbugadu can’t be governor of the state by spreading falsehood and misleading members of the public.
The state party chairman, Aliyu Bello, addressed reporters in Lafia on Thursday, October 19, expressing that following the governorship tribunal’s decision favouring the PDP and its candidate, the party has been unsatisfied with Governor Sule and his administration.
Bello said: “Since the split judgment of the governorship election tribunal, the PDP seems to be agitated and ruffled with anything that comes from Governor Sule and his administration.
“They have decided and determined to misinterpret every statement that emanates from anybody that has something to do with the government in power. It is therefore imperative to put things in their correct perspective in order to save the public from being misled to believing their lies and falsehood.”
The director of media and publicity Umbugadu campaign organization, Mike Omeri, had criticised Governor Sule’s late-night appeal against the recent tribunal verdict.
Omeri had said: “The timing of Governor Sule’s appeal filing raises questions about transparency, fair play, search for justice, and respect for due process.”
The APC chairman describes Omeri’s statement as laughable, shameful, and the most ridiculous statement coming from only those suffering from apprehension of pending defeat.
He said: “Such a statement has some underpinning motives of hypocrisy and obvious plans initially hatched to manipulate the process of appeal which has now been decimated
“Since you claim your lawyers were eagle-eyed and were able to cross-appeal within minutes, why then cry foul? Allow the courts to decide on the issues brought before it in fairness and justice for all.”
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He explained that the state is a peaceful state, inhabited by peaceful and peace-loving people, adding that, “the citizens are committed to pursuing peace irrespective of their lineages, language, and religion they have chosen to practice as no one can claim superiority over another.
“It is against this background that we have decided to respond to their varied misgivings and misrepresentation of facts in relation to the appeal filed by Governor Sule in the court of appeal, falsehood, and propaganda by proxies, mindless threats and divisiveness as being incited by the supporters of the opposition PDPA.”
The APC chairman said the PDP has introduced dangerous political dialectics of threats and falsehood into the body polity, and we are warning that such mindless conspiracies of plausible deniability if not checked have lethal tendencies of overheating the political atmosphere.