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A serving senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Nasarawa South in the Senate, Senator Suleiman Adokwe, has accused top members of the party of conniving with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure that the party failed at the March 28 presidential and National Assembly polls.
Speaking on Wednesday at the National Assembly, he alleged that “there was an institutional conspiracy” and that the “high level of betrayal suffered by Jonathan was unprecedented.”
In his own case, Adokwe claimed that he was winning his election up to the midnight of Sunday, March 29, when most of the results of the polling units had been received and was only waiting for the announcement which did not come until Monday evening, but was surprised when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer announced the results and declared someone else the winner.
“Let me say categorically that I lost the election due to the active collaboration of the PDP agents, which made it very sad.
“My best friends, who I appointed as my agent at the collation centres all sold out. Today they cannot look at me in the face, some of them had even run away. It was a massive conspiracy to get me out of office.
“It is an institutional conspiracy, but we are trusting that God who is above all institutions, will vindicate us.”
He pointed out that in cases where they should have been an outcry about the issue of faulty card readers and other flaws recorded on the day of the election, due to the conspiracy, there was silence on such issues.
“There is a complete institution conspiracy to shift the government from the PDP to the APC at all cost. Virtually everybody participated in this movement across the political parties,” he stated.
The senator added, “Infact, ranking PDP stalwarts participated in this grand design to effect a change in governance. Even when the ordinary people knew the election was not fair, they looked the other way because everybody was united to make sure that PDP was out of government.
“That can happen in the life of any country where people had, had enough of a particular ruling party and desperately needed a change without minding how the change would come.
“In my own considered opinion, this is what happened in Nigeria. We just pray that it is for good.”
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