Primaries guidelines not compromised, PDP replies critics

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday said there was no iota of truth in a report making the rounds that its primary election guideline was compromised by forgery.

In a press release made available to Blueprint in Abuja, its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, charged members to disregard such reports, saying it was both sensational and misleading.

The party in the statement  re assured all members and teeming supporters, saying the misleading reports are at the handiwork of agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are desperately seeking ways to create a scandal, discredit the integrity of PDP’s internal processes and bring the Party to public ridicule.

The statement reads: “The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to sensational and misleading reports in a section of the media suggesting that its Primary Election Guidelines have allegedly been compromised by forgery.

“The PDP states in clear and unequivocal terms that its Primary Election Guidelines as approved by the Party have not by any means whatsoever been compromised by forgery as being peddled in the said reports.

“The PDP has however been made aware that the misleading reports are at the instance of certain resentful individuals who, as agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are desperately seeking ways to create a scandal, discredit the integrity of PDP’s internal processes and bring the Party to public ridicule.

“Our Party is shocked by the level of desperation being displayed by these individuals reportedly with the backing of a particular top official in the APC administration who had on several occasions vowed to destroy the PDP to enable the APC entrench a totalitarian and oppressive one-party system in our nation to the resentment and detriment of Nigerians.”