Enugu State campaign council of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Labour Party (LP) as a wicked lot, who run when no man is pursuing it.
The PDP spoke in reaction to allegation that it planned to unleash violence and rig the March 18 gubernatorial election.
PDP, however, thanked the LP for letting out and confirming to the world their nefarious plot to unleash violence on the people of Enugu State, as was declared by the LP senator-elect for Enugu North senatorial district, Okey Ezea, which the PDP noted.
PDP said it was instructive that LP was as yet to condemn the do-or-die threat by its mouthpiece, several weeks after.
The campaign council, in a statement by the Director of Public Communications/Spokesman, Nana Ogbodo, said the fever, which had come over the LP since it recorded some unexpected and fleeting victories in the National Assembly elections through a bandwagon effect of the presidential election, would be cured by the discerning Enugu State electorate on March 18.
“We won’t condescend to join issues with the Enugu Labour Party, which has been understandably unable to manage its unexpected success at the February 25 National Assembly election. It is a fact that whatever victories they scored were not predicated on the strength or popularity of their candidates, most of whom are either perennial losers or unknown quantities, but rather on the popularity of one man, who will not be on the ballot on March 18.
“It is also instructive that even Peter Obi, for whom the people actually deferred to, has categorically urged the electorate to eschew party definitions and vote for candidates with proven competence, capacity, and character, which the PDP candidate, Peter Mbah, epitomises.
“In any case, we thank the Enugu LP for letting us into their grand designs to unleash terror on Enugu people and massively rig the electoral process as announced by the LP senator-elect for Enugu North senatorial district, Okey Ezea, who declared the forthcoming governorship election in the state as a do-or-die affair.
“However, we are to assure them that we have petitioned the inspector general of police (IGP) over that threat by Ezea and that Enugu people will come out en masse to vote for Mbah and the PDP in a peaceful atmosphere and that their votes will count.
“Enugu people will never surrender to their threats and evil designs,” the PDP said.
The PDP further called on the IGP and the heads of other security agencies not to spare any troublemaker plotting deaths and mayhem in the forthcoming governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.