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A staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has described his party’s performance at the presidential election as a political own goal.
According to Sowunmi, the party lost in the election by giving out itself.
He noted that there were many internal crises within the party prior to the election and it came back to haunt them so badly.
Sowunmi who was one of the spokespersons for the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council made his position known while featuring on a political programme Politics Today on Channels TV where he described the circumstances that resulted in the party’s loss to scoring an own goal.
He said: “I will say that the 2023 election was an unusual election. In 2019, we felt and we really strongly believed we were robbed but in 2023 I will like to say we gave it out by ourselves. I mean you can map the areas where we didn’t get our traditional numbers and you can just see PDP is responsible for not getting it here, PDP is responsible for not getting it there,”
He added, “So, our struggle or if you like their struggle because I wasn’t involved in that, their struggle trying to show we are this and that created a scenario where they were trying to settle a score with the general elections. It was a terrible own goal for our party.”
Sowunmi said the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) did a good job in accreditation of voters during the elections but berated Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for failing to transmit the results of the polls electronically, especially during the February 25 poll.
However, the Ogun state born politician noted that the PDP has got all it takes to bounce back into reckoning.