ELECTION POSTPONEMENT: ANY EVIDENCE OF PDP/PRESIDENCY's CULPABILITY?

The question I asked some group of people when I had the privilege of having a discussion with them, is that is there any evidence to backup the statement credited to Nigeria's main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), alleging that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alongside the Presidency
orchestrated the ongoing campaign for election postponement.

One would be right to say that, it would completely be unfair for the APC to continue accusing the ruling PDP of such moves, when already the ruling party had come out openly to deny such allegation. There is no need, preempting one another due to the quest for political powers.

In the words of APC's National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed today, "There is no clearer indication that the PDP and the Presidency are the puppeteers behind the election shift campaign than Wednesday’s newspaper advertorial plainly campaigning for the polls to be shifted.

"This advert, which has the picture of President Goodluck Jonathan and the logo of the PDP – meaning they will be the sole beneficiaries of the postponement they are seeking – leaves no one in doubt that the ruling party and the presidency are pathologically dishonest, deliberately deceptive and chronically terrified about the elections."

"The campaign, which is hinged on the fact that many Nigerians have not collected their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), is not sincere. If it is, the PDP and the Presidency would have instead been urging Nigerians to go all out and collect their PVCs so the election can hold.

Why is this so impossible for them to do? Like we said earlier, what prevents the federal government from declaring a three-day public holidays to give Nigerians the opportunity to collect their PVCs? Why is it that only the PDP and its sponsored groups and individuals are the ones leading the campaign for election postponment, even as our party, the APC, has been campaigning for Nigerians to go and collect their PVCs?

"Is it not instructive that at least 26 political parties have joined the no-postponement campaign, while the PDP/Presidency, as well as the lick-spittle individuals and groups who have been compromised one way or another, continue to beat the drums of election shift?."

It is instructive therefore to say at this point, that the mere fact that PDP in the purported advert suggested that many Nigerians have not collected their PVC, is not enough to say the PDP and the Presidency is behind the plot.