“No going back on my plan to leave Nigeria after Tinubu’s victory” -PDP chieftain, Bode George

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George, has maintained that his departure from the country would not change following the emergence of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as president-elect.

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He described February 25th, 2023 elections as shambolic, shameless and full of inadequacies and futility.

In his words: “I am so heartbroken because I thought we were going to lift Nigeria to the level of a civilised world, that from every polling station, the results would be transmitted electronically into the server and it was done during Anambra, Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections.

“We were all clapping, happy, and ready to elevate this nation from the dull room of filth to the level of a civilised world. And as a professor, I am so disappointed, because if the National Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, knew that there were hitches in the system, the best he could have done morally was to say ‘stop’ to all these operations.

I do not see the Labour Party as a party per say. It is a movement

“He continued with the shenanigans, rubbish and nonsense and started collating, and went back to the old system where they were manipulating the results.”

On whether the lack of support from the G-5 and Integrity Group affected PDP in the February 25th, 2023 elections, he said: “Of course, where did Peter Obi come from? Most of the people who got angry went away from the PDP; a divided house is a defeated house. You said the South-West doesn’t matter.

“If they added Obi’s votes to PDP’s, Tinubu would have been washed away. Divided we fall, and you can see it even with the manipulation that they did. The Labour Party won them because people are tired of the All Progressives Congress. In Lagos now they are trying now to espouse the theory of Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour being an Igbo man.

“You see the lie, who told them Rhodes-Vivour is an Igbo man? Saturday is the election and it will be based on justice, fairness, and equity. I pray that Yakubu and his team use the electronic transmission of results otherwise he will send this country to the bottom of the sea.

“If Obi and all those G-5 governors had come together to resolve this mismanagement by managers of the party when they put the cap of arrogance on their heads, I told them a divided house is a defeated house but that will be a story for another day.

“The arrogance, evil rant, and lacklustre attitude exhibited by them to forget about the tenets established by the founding fathers didn’t help the party and I said to them ‘If you don’t change this, I will not vote for him (Atiku).”

According to the PDP chieftain, he does not see the Labour Party as a party per say. It is a movement. People got tired of the lacklustre attitude of these two political parties.

“The younger generation including my children told me to my face that daddy I am voting for this new party. We are tired of your PDP and APC.

“That was what happened in Lagos. We made it clear that if you don’t make a southern person the presidential candidate of our party we are not going to work with you. It is a misery,” George added.