We’ll not enable APC bully us in 2027 – Ogun PDP chair

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has vowed to withstand any try by the All Progressives Congress to intimidate voters within the 2027 elections, insisting that the period of APC bullying opposition events is over.

The occasion’s chairman, Abayomi Tella, in an interview with Sunday PidomNigeria, accused the APC of deploying violence, voter intimidation, and different coercive ways to safe victories within the 2023 elections and the lately held Remo Federal Constituency by-election.

He acknowledged that the PDP is able to match the APC’s ways in 2027, stressing that the occasion would now not enable any makes an attempt to bully voters or manipulate the electoral course of.

“The times when the APC might intimidate opposition events throughout elections are over. No matter they create in 2027, we’re able to match it as a result of we now have the folks solidly behind us. Their shenanigans are over, and the 2027 election goes to be between APC and Nigerians, not even towards PDP or some other occasion.

“There isn’t any monopoly of violence, however as democrats, we are going to ignore violence as a result of we imagine the persons are behind us, and they’re going to vote for us. In 2027, PDP is coming stronger to counter APC’s violent strategies,” Tella mentioned.

He famous that it’s now not enticing for politicians to depart the PDP for the APC, arguing that many defectors have change into mere spectators of their new occasion.

In line with him, defectors wrestle to search out relevance as a result of they weren’t a part of the APC’s basis or inside construction, typically being sidelined for being absent when occasion members have been working to safe energy.

“It’s now not enviable for a politician to cross from PDP to APC as a result of most of our members who’ve gone there have change into onlookers. When the members of the occasion have been working for his or her victory, the defectors weren’t there, so they’re nonetheless handled as outsiders,” he added.

Talking on the state of the PDP, Tella maintained that the occasion stays resilient regardless of challenges over time. He described it as a political organisation with deep roots, insisting that efforts to weaken it have persistently failed.

“So far as I’m involved, PDP is right here to remain. The occasion can by no means die. Should you attempt to kill it at this time, it’s going to resurrect tomorrow. We’re making frantic efforts to maintain our folks collectively,” Tella mentioned.

He added that the occasion management is taking deliberate steps to strengthen inside unity and hold members aligned, noting that the PDP is concentrated on consolidating its base and making ready for a stronger exhibiting within the upcoming political cycle.