We Know Nothing About Ize-Iyamu’s Damaged Billboards – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has come out to say that they are not responsible for the damage or removal of the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate’s billboards.

The state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Nehikhare revealed this while briefing newsmen in Benin today.

According to Chris, the allegations against the PDP and the state government for such a pathetic act is basically frivolous and unsubstantiated.

He added that even PDP was shocked at the destruction of the billboards and they immediately condemned the act.

His words, “It is a known fact that there are factions within the APC in the state. Perhaps the factions could be responsible.

“Let me make it categorically clear that PDP or the state government has no hands in the destruction or damage of the billboards mounted by the APC.

“While we condemn the act, we, however, advise APC to look inwards, as it is common knowledge that the party is seriously divided and populated by factions.

“It is laughable that the APC will contemplate that PDP or its government will pay attention to its posters or billboards without messages and want them destroyed or damaged.”

“We will concentrate on our agenda of ‘resetting’ Edo for a better and brighter tomorrow and not lose sleep over the baseless allegations.”

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.

In the 2019 elections, former vice president Atiku Abubakar and PDP presidential candidadate and his party rejected the outcome of the elections as INEC was yet to conclude the process and make an official pronouncement. On the 25th of February, PDP National Party Chair, Prince Uche Secondus alleged that the result as announced by INEC were incorrect.