PDP Denies Supporting Fayose’s Call for Jega’s Sack
The Peoples Democratic Party has distanced itself from a statement by Governor Ayo Fayose calling for the sack of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
The PDP’s Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, saying that Governor Fayose was merely expressing his personal opinion and not the party’s stand.
He said, “We are not fighting Jega. The opinion expressed by the governor of Ekiti State on the INEC chairman remains his own. He’s not speaking for the party. There is no plan to remove Jega.”
He also expressed confidence that the party will win the 2015 election comfortably while laying to rest rumours that electorates were being bribed to re-elect President Jonathan.
He said: “We won’t bribe voters to return the President into office. As a matter of fact, we have never bribed voters before, during or after elections.”
