By Tony Ezimakor
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) believes the opposition PDP has conceded electoral defeat to the ruling party two years ahead of the general election in 2023.
It said this is going by the avalanche of “idle conspiracies and wild allegations being bandied by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the procurement of e-voting machines and plans to rig the 2023 elections”.
Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, Secretary, APC CECPC, in a statement in Abuja, said there is no need to rig the election, adding that the electoral choice has already been made by the electorate.
He said the PDP is agitated by the widespread popularity of the APC and resorted to distractions and diversionary activities including a litigation against chairman of the CECPC.
It would be recalled that PDP had recently accused the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conspiracy to rig the 2023 election.
Akpanudoedehe said, “In its desperate bid to remain in public reckoning, the PDP has recently resorted to many diversionary activities, including the recent misguided court case instituted against the national caretaker leadership of the APC which has been generally dismissed as an abuse of court process.
“The PDP has now issued an irrational and baseless statement on imagined plans to rig the 2023 general elections.
“The PDP is clearly unsettled and afraid of the APC’s widespread popularity. Hence, the PDP’s imaginary, baseless and concocted allegations of a plan to rig the 2023 elections. The APC will not learn the PDP’s bad habits on election fraud.
“On the part of the APC, there is no need to rig any election because…
