[dropcap]A[/dropcap]head of the January 6, 2018 local government elections in Delta State, All Progressives Congress (APC), has vowed that it will challenge anywhere there is any breach in the process, rules and guidelines of the elections in court even as it assured its party candidates and supporters that the party was working hard towards the polls.
Addressing a press conference in the party secretariat, Asaba, the state chairman of APC, Jones Ode Erue, said his party was ready to go to the field to slug it out with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in their planned game stating that the party would challenge any breach of the process, rule and guidelines of the election in court. “Look at my lips, I mean it. Anywhere they breach the process, we will challenge it in Court.”
Asked if he has faith in the newly constituted Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DSIEC), led by Mike Ogbodu and if his party would have a very successful local government elections, Mr. Erue said, “We are on ground more than the PDP, we are more popular and more acceptable, we know that the people have finished with the PDP because the hardship is too much”.
According to the APC chairman, the process of the election was already been abused, “DSIEC abused the process. Our lawyers are crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s but we want to tell them that we are not running from our shadows, we are going to beat them in this game but the rule and the guidelines must properly be followed”.
He said the three states sharing borders with Delta have lesser allocations but are ten times developed than Delta, “It saddens one’s mind. PDP knows that they have failed. The three states that we are in common boundary with, we receive revenue seven times more than them but in terms of development, they are ten times ahead of us.
“So much has been used for our airport and nobody flies into it because the runway is not good. It destroys aircrafts and nobody comes in. we fly to Owerre, Warri, Benin City and use road to come to Asaba and yet the tax payers monies have being over spent on one single project that does not bring result”. Erue lamented, adding that his party was coming out to defeat the PDP in their own game.
Erue noted that APC was fully aware that the local government election is been organized by the state “But our party decided that we are coming to beat them in their own game. We are coming out, let them know that we are on ground because every time they talk, they say APC is not on ground. We don’t believe in the politics of newspapers and the social media, we believe in the politics of going to the grassroot telling your if they like what is happening in the state. We are dying gradually; our children owe monies they cannot pay”
