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Obasanjo�s letter exposes
PDP�s rigging of 2003 polls, says Durojaiye
By Dan Alo,
Correspondent, Lagos
Following President Olusegun Obasanjo�s letter to the
national chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in which he
alleged that the party did not win the governorship election in Anambra
State, members of the opposition party who lost to the party at various
elections are now gingered to re-contest their losses at the polls in the
electoral tribunals.
Olabiyi Durojaiye disclosed
this on Tuesday in an interview with Daily Independent at the Airport Hotel, venue
of the 74th posthumous
birthday of Bola Ige. He said, �with this letter we now know that
PDP robbed at the polls. In fact, the President called architects of
rigging in Anambra armed robbers�.
He added, �we have always said
PDP is a fraud and that they were never acceptable to the people. They
never won elections anywhere that was what we have insisted right from the
word go and now the father of the party has said they are armed robbers,
so we will challenge them again because we now have proofs to show they
robbed. How can they just wake up one day and start defeating everybody,
winning all manner of elections even defeating me an Otunba in my homeland
Ijebu, you see it is high time we asked questions�.
Durojaiye, who lost to a PDP
opponent at the 2003 Ogun west senatorial elections, said �what other
proofs should anyone be asking for when their leader has said they didn�t
win elections, a case has been established and we can prove
this�.
The PDP has shown that �they
were never elected by the people by their rampant abuse of office and the
total neglect of the people�.
The example of withdrawal of
allocation from Lagos State readily comes to mind here, imagine we all
know that Lagos is the nerve centre of this country, tell me which tribe
or nationality you will not find in Lagos and just because they consider
the governor of the state recalcitrant, you now withdraw their allocation,
therefore all the things they want to do for the people they cannot do and
the people continue to suffer.
He advised that �now that the
Supreme Court has ordered that the allocation should be paid, the Federal
Government should just go ahead and respect the judgement and not commit
contempt of court.
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