The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief
John Odigie Oyegun, said the party conceded victory to the Peoples
Democratic Party in the Ekiti governorship election to prevent the
outbreak of violence.
Oyegun, who said this in Benin on Sunday while fielding questions from journalists, also said that contrary to insinuations the Ekiti governorship poll was characterised with lots of irregularities.
He said that it was in view of these irregularities that the party took the decision to challenge the election result in the court.
“It should be noted that we didn’t just concede victory because the election was flawless but we took the decision to avoid violence.
“We did not want anything that will make the people react negatively and violently.
“The party will challenge the trampling on the fundamental human rights of the people before during and after the election,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the APC chairman as saying to journalists.
He urged Nigerians to embrace the APC as the new party with a different agenda to fix Nigeria.
Oyegun said, “We are presenting our party as new, as different, and we have done the studies as people who truly care.
“There is no way we can prove it to you because we have never ruled this country but we can tell you to look at APC-controlled states.
“We are not pretending to be angels, politics is not a seminary nor is it the papacy but what is important is what are you doing with the lives of the people?
“Are you restoring hopes to their lives? Are you making their lives better? If not for themselves, do they believe that the lives of their children will be better?
“Are your policies concentrated on improving their lives? Are the sectors working in the interest of the ordinary Nigerian?
“Do we have power, do we have quality schools, do we have security and do we have jobs?”
Oyegun, who said this in Benin on Sunday while fielding questions from journalists, also said that contrary to insinuations the Ekiti governorship poll was characterised with lots of irregularities.
He said that it was in view of these irregularities that the party took the decision to challenge the election result in the court.
“It should be noted that we didn’t just concede victory because the election was flawless but we took the decision to avoid violence.
“We did not want anything that will make the people react negatively and violently.
“The party will challenge the trampling on the fundamental human rights of the people before during and after the election,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the APC chairman as saying to journalists.
He urged Nigerians to embrace the APC as the new party with a different agenda to fix Nigeria.
Oyegun said, “We are presenting our party as new, as different, and we have done the studies as people who truly care.
“There is no way we can prove it to you because we have never ruled this country but we can tell you to look at APC-controlled states.
“We are not pretending to be angels, politics is not a seminary nor is it the papacy but what is important is what are you doing with the lives of the people?
“Are you restoring hopes to their lives? Are you making their lives better? If not for themselves, do they believe that the lives of their children will be better?
“Are your policies concentrated on improving their lives? Are the sectors working in the interest of the ordinary Nigerian?
“Do we have power, do we have quality schools, do we have security and do we have jobs?”
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