Ade Armando Responds to Accusations of Brutality in Ganjar’s Political Contract Controversy

CNN Indonesia

Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:32 WIB

Jakarta, CNNIndonesia —

Social media activist and PSI politician Ade Armando responded to the accusations PDIP who calls himself brutal for throwing the issue of Ganjar Pranowo’s political contract at 2024 presidential election.

According to Ade, the statement by the chairman of the PDIP DPP, Said Abdullah, who called the spread of rumors about Ganjar’s political contract as brutal because he wanted to plunge Ganjar into a dispute with the PDIP, was not true.

“The accusations against me that are called preposterous are absurd, untrue, and exaggerated, silly that. How could I ruin the person I supported for months?” said Ade to CNNIndonesia.comWednesday (24/6).

According to him, volunteers had directly intervened in the field by spending their own money to support it until it was successful long before PDIP nominated Ganjar.

Ganjar’s claim to popularity is not because of PDIP

He also said that Ganjar’s popularity was not the result of PDIP’s hard work. Ade claims that Ganjar became popular because of the hard work of the volunteers.

“This means that now you can see that even before Ganjar was nominated by the PDIP as a presidential candidate, right? top and be on top. So, that’s not the role of the PDIP, right? That’s the role of volunteers,” he said.

Ade argued that he wrote tweets to ask Ganjar to clarify the allegations of political contracts in the 2024 presidential election.

“Now it has been proven that Ganjar dared to answer emphatically that it was a lie, that the right to determine who is a minister in his cabinet is his right entirely,” he said.

According to Ade, PDIP actually accused Ganjar’s volunteers of not doing anything about the matter that the governor of Central Java wanted to clarify.

Previously, the chairman of the PDIP DPP, Said Abdullah, denied the news about the political contract. According to him, those who spread rumors about Ganjar’s political contract were brutal. It was as if he supported it, but instead plunged Ganjar into conflict with the PDI-P.

“Those who are of the opinion that the cabinet seats will be determined by the PDI Perjuangan if Ganjar Pranowo becomes president is brutal,” said Said when contacted, Tuesday (13/6).

Brutus refers to a senator figure in ancient Rome who betrayed his colleague and Roman ruler at the time, Julius Caesar. On March 15, 44 BC, Caesar was killed by being stabbed by a number of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

Said stated that his party had identified the party that disseminated the information.

“We have identified people who only play on social media and then it seems as if they are at the forefront of supporting Mr. Ganjar, but they actually spoil the atmosphere,” he said.

(psr/DAL)