By Nkechi Okoro
OBIARUKU/Nigeria: As the build up to the 2019 General Election, stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Ndokwa nation had called for nothing else but for the ticket of the governorship race in Delta state.
The decision was taking in a meeting held in Obiaruku, Ukwuani Local Government Area, on Friday September, 16 2017, when the stakeholders met to strategize as the elections approaches.
The meeting which was attended by major stakeholders of the party in the area said that it is only the governorship ticket that will satisfy the yearnings of the Ndokwa people, as the different leadership in the state and at present had neglected the area in terms of development.
They called on unity of purpose by the party members so that they can achieve the governorship ticket, as it will be the only criteria to ensure Ndokwa man emerges the candidate of the party.
The stakeholders said that despite the present government is being headed by a Delta Northerner, the Ndokwa Area is still poorly given attention, despite been the major financial of the state, and the second largest ethnic group in the state.
Speaking to www.ndokwareporters.com at the end of the meeting, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and governorship candidate at the run up of the 2015 elections, Chief (Amb.) Gabriel Oyibode, and now a member of the APC, denounced the marginalisation of the area, and called for the governorship ticket of APC as the right of the Ndokwa people.
“Ndokwa is being marginalised, even with her natural resources, population, they have to claim their right in the state. The ticket and office should be taking as a project”. He said.
The meeting witnessed the decamping of a onetime chairmanship candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance, (APGA), and a member of the PDP of recent, Chief Christopher Ogoegbunem Ijibike to the APC, along with his supporters.
Those who were present at the Obiaruku meeting include Ogbuefi Val Abanum, Dr. (Barr) Eugene Okolocha and the SA to one of the Directors of NDDC, Mr Charles Olise.
