From Scholastica Onyeka, Makurdi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Benue State has cautioned the state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) to quit blaming it for their woes in the 2023 general election as their doom and impending death is self-inflicted.

State Publicity Secretary and 2023 Campaign Spokesman of the PDP, Benue State, Bemgba Iortyom, stated this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Makurdi on Thursday.

Bemgba, in a statement, noted that since Wednesday, 1st February, 2023, when the State Chapter of the APC purported to embark on a re-run of their governorship primary election, the party has taken to the media to level all manner of accusations against the PDP including that it is behind the predicaments afflicting them in the state.

According to the PDP spokesperson, “APC’s accusations against PDP ranges from destruction of their campaign materials to sponsorship of Professor Terhemba Shija’s legal battles against what he is challenging as a fraudulent gubernatorial primary election in 2022, as well as a purported hiring of thugs to disrupt the re-run of the primaries scheduled to have commenced yesterday.

Responding, Bemgba said, Benue PDP has no time for frivolities as it has its eyes firmly focused on the goals of resounding victory at the February 25th and March 11th, 2023 general elections.

According to him, all publicity materials of the APC worth taking seriously are still intact at their various locations, and can be physically verified.

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On the allegation that the PDP is sponsoring aggrieved aspirants on its platform who are in court challenging the outcome of the party’s gubernatorial primary in 2022 Bemgba who noted that PDP itself went to court to challenge same process, queried who then is sponsoring PDP, if it should follow that anyone in court challenging the Benue APC guber primary in 2022 must have been sponsored by someone.

“APC in Benue either flatters itself excessively or is being criminally mischievous by making it out that PDP concerns itself with what has become the most disgraceful showing in political party leadership incompetence and mismanagement.

“For emphasis, PDP under the leadership of Governor Samuel Ortom only the other week rounded up its first leg of campaign tour of the 23 local government areas of Benue.

“Running simultaneously are the Gubernatorial, Senatorial, House of Representatives and State Assembly campaigns of our great party being undertaken by our candidates and their campaign teams right down to the 276 council wards and 5,102 polling units in the state.

“PDP in Benue, therefore, has no time for frivolities as it has its eyes firmly focused on the goals of resounding victory at the February 25th and March 11th, 2023 general elections.

“APC’s prevailing doom and the attendant impending death of the party are clearly the result of poor administration of its internal processes, and this fact they should own up to and work to address, rather than indulging in false accusations against PDP which in the end will only amount to a waste of their time,” Bemgba said.