By Mike Jones
UGHELLI/Nigeria: The All Progressive Congress, APC has called for the cancellation of the last Saturday’s, January 6, 2018 Delta State Local Governments Election, and threatened to boycott the rescheduled elections in two of the 25 five local governments were elections did not take place on that day.
Announcing the decision of the party in a press briefing, the State Chairman of the Party, Prophet Jones Erhue, said the election was a fraud, as the Okowa’s government rigged its own election by confiscating all sensitive materials.
“I want to reiterate that the elections purportedly organized by the Okowa led PDP government in the entire State was a fraud”.
“The Okowa Government rigged his own election by confiscating all sensitive election materials including result sheets and then resorted to writing all the results and handing same to DSIEC to announce”.
“In the attempt by the APC to insist on all sensitive materials including result sheets be provided to allow a free and fair election, the PDP resorted to violence that was witnessed throughout the 25 LGAs of the State. In summary no elections took place anywhere in Delta state”.
According to him, in their press briefing on the day of the election, they demanded for the total cancellation of the election, and they had not deviated on that.
“We demanded and still demand for a total cancellation of the sham
elections in all the twenty-five LGAs in Delta State”.
They accused the government of giving the failed election legal backing by directing for re-run in only two LGA’s of, Ughelli North and Ethiope East.
“To purportedly direct for a re-run in only two LGAs, Ughelli North and Ethiope East, is a subterfuge for the validation and authentication of the sham elections in the other twenty-three LGAs”.
Prophet Erhue stressed that the party is always ready for the LGA Elections, and condemned the grotesque and brazen sabotage on the will of the people, as they equally demanded for a free and fair election in a re-run that will take place in the 25 LGA’s.
“We will therefore not participate in the elections in the two LGAs fixed for tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9, 2018”.
