Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a scam.
In a statement describing the party as a “huge scam”, HURIWA condemned the decision of the party to throw open it’s presidential ticket ahead of the party’s presidential primaries scheduled for May 28-29, 2022.
National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko expressed displeasure of the party’s refusal to zone its presidential ticket to the southeast.
Onwubiko said, “We condemn the decision of PDP to throw its presidential ticket open.
“PDP’s decision not to heed the wise counsel of elder statesmen [in the Southern region]is blameworthy considering that the South-East is the only zone that has not produced a democratically elected President out of the three major ethnicities since Nigeria’s Self government after over 60 years existence as a Sovereignty.
“Throwing the contest open has confirmed that PDP has scammed the South-East even after the zone has suffered marginalisation and exclusion from the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“What PDP has done shows clearly that it is indeed a 419 political contraption and our plea is that Nigerian voters who don’t have PVCs should get their cards so as to reject both PDP and APC should both feature northern candidates for president.”
