Ipadeola Dolapo, Abeokuta
Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Segun Sowunmi, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari, over his order that any election ballot snatcher should be shot at sight by security agents.
Sowunmi declared that PDP would never support and encourage hooliganism before, during and after the elections and argued that the President’s statement may be misconstrued by overzealous security agents and cause crisis.
He spoke, on Tuesday, during a media chat with newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital.
Sowunmi, who is also the House of Representatives candidate of the PDP for the Abeokuta South Federal Constituency, noted that the President would have made his stance known without uttering such an inflammatory statement, which according to him is “unpresidential”.
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According to him, the President has only succeeded in demonstrating that even a suspected criminal has no right to life, maintaining that literary interpretation of Buhari’s statement by security agents could cause chaos during the polls.
He, however, blamed the president’s handlers for failing in their duties to guide and navigate the president properly and noted that he (PMB) should be given an opportunity to correct himself.
On the shift of the presidential and National Assembly election, the House of Reps candidate, knocked the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakub, for disappointing the nation.
He said despite the fact that INEC is running the most expensive election in the anal of the country and had everything it demanded for, for the conduct of a credible poll, the last minute postponement was uncalled for.
While absolving the PDP of any complicity in the election postponement, Sowunmi, said that searchlight should rather be turned on the ruling party and called for a thorough investigation into the matter, with the view of bringing those responsible to book.
On why he is contesting to represent Abeokuta South Federal Constituency at the House of Reps, Sowunmi, said that the federal constituency had lacked quality representation and declared that if voted into the Green Chamber, Abeokuta South will witness a total departure from the status quo in terms of development and empowerment.
