APC Hails Lady Stabbed On Election Day

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, on Thursday, hailed the female voter, Jennifer Efidi, who was stabbed by political thugs during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Edifi, who went with her daughter to a polling unit in Surulere, was attacked by suspected thugs who invaded the spot to disrupt the electoral process.

Gory images of the resilient woman, who returned to cast her ballot after getting first aid, had trended on social media.

The photos revealed her face covered in blood and some showing a bandaged face after receiving treatment following an attack by hoodlums at her polling unit in Lagos.

Speaking at a media parley at the party secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, Adamu and the National Working Committee of the APC praised her courage for sacrificing her time and little financial resource to go back to the polling unit to cast her vote.

According to Adamu, Tinubu’s victory in Saturday’s election could not have been possible without her contribution as well those of security agents and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He said, “We have been through a gruelling experience in the hands of the doomsayers. We have pulled through in one piece and demonstrated once more that fortified by our patriotism and our duty to our nation, we will always give the lie to the doomsayers.

“The victory does not belong to the President-elect and his political party alone, it also belongs to that poor woman who, against all odds and the current financial problems, still sacrificed her time and her little financial resource to go to her polling unit to cast her vote because she wanted to have a say in who governs her and her country.

“The victory belongs to the security agencies who put their lives on the line and ensured the peaceful conduct of the election at all levels. It belongs to all Nigerians who collectively showed a determination to birth a new national leadership. It belongs especially to the chairman and the members of INEC. They laboured under a dark cloud of sabotage. INEC offices were torched in several states; its personnel were similarly attacked but Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the man who has done more than anyone else in that difficult office refused to be intimidated and be deflected from doing his duty to his country and his compatriots.”