Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman hopeful and former Ogun Governorship aspirant in 2023, Otunba Segun Showunmi has advised President Bola Tinubu to address the concerns of some Nigerians who largely believed that Edo gubernatorial poll failed integrity test.
The Abeokuta born politician also decried the surreptitious attempt by the ruling party to foist one party state on the people of Nigeria without paying any serious attention to the excruciating poverty bedeviling the lot of a 220 million population,
He further stressed that the President owe it a duty to insist that elections in Nigeria must have integrity and that is time to minimized the human element in the voting process.
Showunmi made this known in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen, including VERACITY DESK [veracitydesk.com] on Tuesday, September 24, 2024.
The PDP chieftain’s reactions came on the heels of the controversy trailing the outcome of the Saturday, September 21, 2024 gubernatorial election in Edo State which was conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).
Please read Showunmi’s statement in extenso as reproduced hereunder:
At the heart of this dangerous game, my question to you Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is this.
Do you think our country can afford a one-party state when excruciating poverty is the lot of a 220 million population country?
You owe it a duty to insist that elections must have Integrity for it is possible for your party to win truly but when there is a queried integrity of the process even you have lost. All of us are the losers. It is time to minimize the human element in the voting process.
I see your moves they are so transparent to me. Your rivals are not serious, so my simulation tells me that you have a four-move mate on board what is otherwise known as a fool’s gambit.
Can Nigeria afford a one-party state? Especially with a full state capture. I don’t think so.
Otunba Segun Showunmi
