The Director-General of the African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Austin Akobundu, has expressed profound gratitude to ADC supporters and Nigerians, who turned out in their numbers to offer the occasion’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and his working mate, Rotimi Amaechi, a heroic welcome in Sokoto and Kebbi States.
The ADC Presidential marketing campaign council mentioned the dimensions of the welcome was a strong expression of the folks’s enthusiasm for the ADC marketing campaign and their willpower to have a voice in the nation’s future.
In a press release by the Director General of the marketing campaign, Akobundu, thanked everybody who got here out, stood with the candidates and helped make the rallies a powerful present of in style assist.
He challenged the federal authorities and the APC-led administration to show their confidence on the poll field by permitting a genuinely free and honest election.
Akobundu challenged the APC to observe due processed in their campaigns, stating that ”Their resort to a backdoor course of to cease the ADC by way of a courtroom judgment solely deepens considerations about their willingness to face the folks in a free contest.
“If the federal authorities and the APC imagine they’ve the capability to win, allow them to permit a free and honest election. Let Nigerians select with out intimidation, obstruction or interference. They should cease attempting to muzzle the political house and utilizing a backdoor courtroom course of to take away us from the competition.
“Nigerians should be free to listen to competing concepts, attend political occasions and select their leaders with out intimidation or interference. The poll should stay the folks’s alternative, and each occasion should be allowed to marketing campaign freely.
“We name on our occasion supporters to stay calm and resolute. Let us proceed to marketing campaign peacefully and confidently, realizing that the folks’s will should prevail.
“The ADC will continue to engage Nigerians across the country with its message of affordable living, opportunity and national renewal. We are grateful to everyone who welcomed our candidates in Sokoto and Kebbi, and we look forward to meeting more Nigerians as the campaign continues,” Akobundu mentioned.
