APC In Disarray!

MOVE TO ENDORSE OGBORU AS APC’S CONSENSUS GUBER CANDIDATE IN DELTA STATE FAILS

Fresh crisis is rocking the main opposition party in Delta State, the All Progressive Congress, APC, as move by leaders of Light of APC, a pressure group in Delta APC to get APC local government chairmen to endorse Chief Great Ogboru as the party’s sole governorship candidate in 2019 elections failed to sail through according to Advocate, an online news source.

ADVOCATE reports that the leaders of Light of APC had planned to use the meeting which was called by Mr. Valentine Egbe-led Delta State APC Chairmen/Secretaries forum to get them to endorse Chief Ogboru as the party candidate and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as the party’s state leader.

Sources at the meeting which was hosted on Friday in Ogboru’s home at Abraka, revealed that one of the LG Chairmen who was part of the plot, moved a motion for Ogboru’s endorsement as the party’s sole governorship candidate and it was quickly seconded by another.

However, things took a different turn, when some of the LG chairmen who were not aware of the agenda of the meeting hatched another plot, one of them sneakily hijacked the attendance sheet and ran out of the meeting.

Rattled by the unsuspected move of the LG chairman who is alleged to be a loyalist of one of the party leaders, the leadership of Light of APC who had earlier presented N5million as kola nut wedge to the chairmen; with the hope of using the attendance list to publicise the endorsement had to shelve the plan when they could not lay hands on it.

Following the failed move to endorse Ogboru as the party’s governorship candidate and Senator Omo-Agege as the party state leader, the leadership of Mainstream Delta APC, MDA, another pressure group with the state APC leader, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor as their leader moved swiftly by issuing a statement cautioning its members to be wary in attending group meetings.

The statement which was issued by MDA State Coordinator, Chief Alfred Oloko, titled “Important Notice To All MDA Members,” the group cautioned its members to select meetings to attend, stressing that it will nominate candidates for various elective positions including the House of Assembly, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Governor of the state.

They equally resolved to field candidate to slug it out with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central senatorial District at the National Assembly, for the party ticket come 2019, saying that the Senator is not an aspirant that MDA supports.

The statement reads in part: “As we all earlier resolved, MDA will field and/or support candidates for each of the elective positions. In particular, MDA will field and or support candidates for all three senatorial seats in the state, including Delta Central.

“It is important to note that the current Senator representing Delta Central, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, although an APC Senator, is a member of Light of APC, and Not a member of MDA and neither an affiliate nor sympathiser thereof. He has also not sought the support of MDA. In the circumstances, the Senator is not an aspirant that MDA supports.

“MDA will soon choose its aspirant for the Senate position in Delta Central and all other positions in the state. This will be done collectively as these will be the aspirants MDA members will support at the coming party primaries.

“In the meantime therefore, MDA members are advised to be wary of joining groups that promote or support the aspirations of any person or persons who are not members of MDA or whose aspirations are antithetical to the interest or ideals of MDA. All should please take note and be guided accordingly.”

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