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  • APC built Train stations in villages of PDP chieftains – Amaechi

    The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, on Sunday said that in the course of executing the Warri-Itakpe Rail line, stations were built in the villages of Peoples’ Democratic Party(PDP)’s chieftains.

    Amaechi disclosed this at the `Next Level Presentation’ at Presidential Villa Banquet Hall to signal the commencement of the campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 general elections.

    The minister who made a presentation titled `What We are Building ’  said that President Muhammadu Buhari, upon assumption of office, directed that old and abandoned projects be completed.

    “The truth is that the country is compelled to make a choice between good and bad. When I was appointed the Minister for Transportation, the president warned–do not start new contracts, go and complete old ones.

    “We met Itakpe –Warri Rail line which had been in existence for 34  years uncompleted; it would have been the first Standard Guage line in Africa if it was completed.

    “Based on the president’s instruction, I did a memo; I thought we will borrow money from China; but the president refused. He said we should use our internal funds to execute the project.

    “People saw me on social media on Train service from Warri to Itakpe. I got to Warri 8pm because I was going from one station to the other—almost all the villages and most  prominent members of PDP made sure that train stations were in their villages.

    “So, I am compelled to do those stations in villages of members of PDP; it is okay; it is the instruction of the president that you must go and finish the old work.’’

    He said that the tradition in the past was that once one was elected, one left the old things for the old people and awarded new contracts.

    According to Amaechi, the ministry will start commercial service from Itakpe to Warri.

    On PDP’s argument that it started the projects, Amaechi said that Buhari made it clear on commissioning the Abuja –Kaduna rail project that the project was started by the former government of President Goodluck Jonathan.

    “We completed it but two things are remarkable—we borrowed 500 million dollars to start that project at the time oil was selling at 114 dollars per barrel.

    “ We should not have borrowed; you mean this country could not have afforded 500 million dollars?

    “I will show that we can; when I wrote a memo to the president and to the cabinet requesting that he should allow me borrow 500 million dollars from China to buy locomotives and coaches for Lagos-Ibadan, the cabinet under the directive of the president refused.

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    “He(the president) said 500 million dollars; we can get from here and we are funding it from here; so we did and completed Kaduna to Abuja quickly.

    “We spend N56million per month and we get N16 million; so we are augmenting for both rich and poor—N40 million per month under the directive of the president because he fears that the poor might not be able to afford it. So, everybody is using it.’’

    According to him, Lagos to Ibadan railway is almost complete—a distance of 156kms.

    The minister said that application had also been made to construct Kano to Kaduna railway as approval for funds is being awaited.

    “We are about to award the central line from Abuja to Niger to Baru from Baru to Itakpe to Warri; the president had approved a new seaport in Warri. We are negotiating with a Chinese company which will build it.

    “Do not forget that N2.7 billion dollars is N1 trillion. So, we are looking for money to commence already awarded work on the coastal rail.

    “The coastal rail starts from Lagos, from Lagos; it passes through Ogun State, Ondo, Benin, Asaba, and Onitsha. From Benin again, it passes through Warri, Sapele, Ughelli, to Bayelsa, in fact, it goes to Utuoke. From Otuoke, it goes to Port Harcourt.

    “ Then from Port Harcourt, it goes to Aba, Uyo, and ends up in Cross River State.

    “We are almost ready to award Port Harcourt to Maidugiri. The difference between us and the last award is that the last award was 1500km but under the directive of Mr President, it was extended to 2000 km.

    “ The last award was Port Harcourt straight to Maidugiri but in order to satisfy everybody at the directive of the President, we must get to every state capital,’’ he said.

    On his part, Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, said that it would require a long journey into Nigeria’s history to recall when last it had massive investment in infrastructure.

    “It is no coincidence that we look to the 1970s and the 1980s when we built new airports, new seaports, new refineries, new highways and bridges.

    “The closest you will have to that era is the 1990s when petrol-money was also being applied to upgrade infrastructure under the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF)incidentally chaired by Buhari.

    “We lost an enormous opportunity when recently oil money rose to $114 dollar per barrel and stayed there for almost a decade and we have no new airport, refinery, bridges, petrochemical plants,   no new seaports to show accountability to how all the money went,’’ he said.

    The event also witnessed the unveiling of Buhari-Osinbajo 2019—A Basic Guide-The Campaign Manual in Brief.

    NAN

  • Adopt only use of direct primary, lawyer tells Oshiomhole

    A Benin based lawyer and former Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Barr. Eddy Ehi Osifo, has urged the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress to adopt the use of the direct primary for picking of its candidates in the future.
    The use of direct primary, according to Barr. Osifo, would stop manipulations, rigging and all forms of corruption in the choice of picking candidates.
    Barr. Osifo noted that what birthed the present confusion into the APC primary was the adoption of three method of election in its primary.
    In a press statement issued in Benin City, Barr. Osifo said the Directorate of State Security (DSS) overreached itself and meddled in the internal politics of the APC.

    Read Also: Anti-Oshiomole protest rocks Imo

    Osifo stated that President Muhammadu Buhari should have sacked the DSS officials involved in the detaining of Comrade Oshiomhole.
    He said the APC would always be riddled with problems if President Buhari appealed to sentiments or emotions.
    Osifo said the solution to the feud between Oshiomhole and some APC governors is to upheld arguments more in the interest of the country and the party.
    According to him, “Mr. President has nothing to worry about with finding a solution to the current intra party problems in the APC.
    “If only Mr. President can apply sound and unassailable principles to solve every party problem, he will discover that there is no insoluble problems facing the party.”

  • Bye-election: APC alleges invasion of Kwara communities by thugs

    The All Progressives Congress has alerted security agencies over the influx of thugs into some Kwara communities ahead of Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency bye-election slated for Saturday, November 17.

    Mr. Femi David, the Personal Assistant on Media to Mr Raheem Olawuyi, the APC candidate, raised the concern in a statement issued and made available to newsmen on Friday in Omu-Aran.

    The statement identified some of the communities as; Iji-isin, Ijara-Isin, Owu-Isin, Iwo-Isin, Oke-Onigbin, Esie, Osi, Idofin-Igbana, Omu-Aran among others.

    It stated that the thugs were purposely brought into the areas to instil fear in the minds of the voters ahead of the polls.

    The party said it viewed the development, which had caused unnecessary panic among residents, as undemocratic and an attempt to disenfranchise its patriotic and loyal supporters.

    “We have on good authority that some political thugs have been drafted into some of the communities where the bye-election has been scheduled to hold on Saturday.

    “We have already alerted the security agencies and other relevant stakeholders to this development and they have assured us of prompt intervention in terms of adequate security and surveillance.

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    “Our supporters across the constituency are hereby urged not to entertain any fear of intimidation, harassment and that the desired freedom would surely be achieved devoid of violence.

    “While intimidation and thuggery in electioneering remained the pastime of the opposition, we in APC will continue to toe the line of tolerance, peaceful co-existence and fair play.

    “We called on security agencies not to relent in the discharge of their responsibilities by beaming their searchlight on the aforementioned identified areas.

    NAN

  • Lagos Assembly: Those who may return in 2019

    Following the conclusion of the House of Assembly primaries by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, the permutations about who is likely to return to the chamber next year are easy, given that politics in the state is dominated by the party. Correspondent OZIEGBE OKOEKI reports.

    THE All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the Lagos State House of Assembly aspirants has come and gone. After all the controversies surrounding the outcome of the elections, there is now a clearer picture about who may come back and those who may not make it back to the chamber after the 2019 election.

    Though the candidates still have to face the voters who have the final say about their fate at the 2019 general elections,  based on the usual trend of elections outcome in Lagos, one can infer that majority of the candidates running on the ticket of the party will make it back to the House after the elections; Lagos being mainly an APC state.

    It is, however, not certain the impact the acrimony and anger of some aspirants, who felt short-changed because of allegations of injustice and imposition in the final list of candidates will have on the performance of some of the candidates at the election.

    Will there be protest votes in such constituencies? Will the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others  capitalise on such grievances to spring surprises in the election? Is the opposition capable of re-enacting the kind of victories it recorded in eight constituencies during the last general elections? Or are there going to be more opposition members in the 9th Lagos Assembly? Only the 2019 general elections can answer all these questions.

    However, while it is not possible to say for now how many of the current members are coming back, one can say categorically how many of the current members are not coming back or will not be part of the 9th Assembly after the primary election and the release of the candidates for the election into the state House of Assembly.

    It is very certain that nine out of the current 40 members in the house will not be part of the 9th Assembly. They will not be coming back, because of their ambition to move higher to the National Assembly. While some of such members succeeded in securing the party’s ticket for the race, others lost the primary election for the National Assembly ticket. Yet, there are those who lost in their bid to come back or won the primary but for reasons best known to the party leadership their names were dropped from the final list and substituted with other names.

    In the category of those moving higher is the lawmaker currently representing Kosofe 1 constituency, Adebayo Osinowo. He has secured the party’s ticket for the Senate, after doing four terms at the Lagos Assembly.

    In a different category is Olanrewaju Ogunyemi, who represents Ojo 2 in the house. He has served two terms and was seeking to move to the House of Representatives. He succeeded in the primary, but because of internal party arrangement and balancing within his constituency he had to step down for another candidate. So, he is not coming back to the assembly.

    Funmilayo Tejuoso is another lawmaker that will not make it back to the house. Tejuoso who is serving her fourth term in the house contested the primary to return to the lawmaking chamber, after dropping her initial aspiration to vie for the House of Representatives seat. The member representing Mushin 1 constituency she lost at the primary and, so, will not be part of the 9th Assembly as well.

    The case of the current Deputy Whip, Ms. Omotayo Oduntan who represents Alimosho 2, is slightly different. Oduntan who is currently doing third term also wanted to go to the House of Representatives, but lost at the primary. So, she will not be part of the 9th Assembly.

    Also not returning to the house is Oludayo Fafunmi who represents Ifako/Ijaye 1 constituency and Olusegun Olulade who represents Epe 2 constituency. Fafunmi who is currently doing third term and Olulade, currently serving his second term, both picked the forms to vie for a seat in the House of Representatives, but they lost at the primary. As a result, they will not be coming back to the house at the expiration of the 8th Assembly in May next year.

    The remaining three lawmakers who are not coming back to the assembly and will thus not be part of the 9th Assembly are: Ibrahim Layode who represents Badagry 1 constituency, Olusola Giwa who represents Lagos Island 11 constituency and Adedayo Famakinwa who represents Ajeromi/Ifelodun 1 constituency. They were all defeated at the primary election and would not come back after May next year.

    At the onset of the 8th Assembly there were 18 first termers, but this increased to 19 through a by-election that was held to fill the vacancy created by the death of the representative of Eti-Osa 1 constituency, Alimi Kazeem. The late Kazeem was replaced by Noheem Adams.

    Of the 19 first termers in the outgoing 8th Assembly only two could not secure return ticket for second term; Famakinwa and Giwa who were mentioned earlier.

    At the begining of the 8th Assembly, there were eight opposition members from the PDP in the house, but seven of them later defected to the ruling APC, leaving the PDP with just one lawmaker in the person of Dipo Olorunrinu. The PDP lawmaker represents Amuwo/Odofin 1 constituency. He remains the PDP candidate in his constituency, having won the party primary election in his constituency.

    However, of the seven that defected to the APC only six got return tickets for second term. The seventh member, Famakinwa, could not make it through the primary.

    Sources at the assembly say they were all promised automatic return tickets before they defected. Thus, though some of them actually lost at the primary, they were still compensated by the party, as others who actually won the election were sacrificed for them. It is however not clear why Famakinwa’s case is different.

    But, unconfirmed reports as at press time have it that he has been given a second term ticket by the party, though his name was yet to appear on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) list of candidates.

    The six defectors who are returning for a second term are: Fatai Oluwa (Ajeromi/Ifelodun 11); Bello Akeem (Amuwo/Odofin 11); Victor Akande (Ojo 1); Olushola Sokunle (Oshodi/Isolo 1); Jude Idimogun (Oshodi/Isolo 11) and Mrs. Mosunmola Sangodara (Surulere 11).

    How many will make it after the general election in 2019, only time will tell.

     

  • Only one woman candidate for Niger Assembly election

    There are 52 candidates for the Niger State House of Assembly elections on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). But, only a woman is among the flagbearers.

    According to the list release by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), the woman, Vintage Mamman, is an APC chieftain. She is contesting for the Gurara Constituency seat.

    The PDP has no woman candidate.  All the 26 flagbearers are men.

    No fewer than 10 APC members of the House of Assembly fail to secure the party ticket. They lost to other aspirants at the parimary.

    There are 36 political parties fielding governorship candidates. However, only three are fielding woman candidates.

  • ‘Why South must return Buhari for second term’

    A pressure group within the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Ifesowapo Society, has explained why the people of the Southern part of Nigeria must return President Muhammadu Buhari for the second term.

    In a statement by its President, Samuel Jegede, the group said if a Northern candidate different from Buhari is voted into office in 2019 the South will have to wait for another eight years to produce a president.

    He said it is wise for the people of the South East and South West geo-political zones to support the second term bid of Buhari in their own common interest.

    Jegede said now is the time for the Southern politicians and people to rally support for Buhari to complete the eight year tenure which is due constitutionally for him rather than allow a fresh candidate from the North to open a new chapter of another two term tenure.

    He advised Nigerians to make the Buhari administration continue its fight against corruption in order to consolidate on its gains so that  Nigeria could regain respect among comity of nations.

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    The leader of the group described Buhari’s integrity as uncommon, saying Mr. President fears no man but only God and therefore need “the support of every Nigerian to succeed.”

    He maintained that no one among current presidential candidates could match Buhari’s integrity, patriotism and commitment to Nigeria.

    Jegede, who also commended Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola for his commitment to good governance, said that his contribution to the development of Osun in the last eight years would remain evergreen, adding that he had laid a good foundation for an incoming administration to build upon

  • APC: Still a long way to party?

    The sensational allegation, by a body that calls itself the Buhari Support Group (BSG), that some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors were working against President Muhammadu Buhari, Chairman Adams Oshiomhole and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has sure taken the APC cosmos by storm.

    Most of the governors have issued sharp ripostes, which, to be honest make a lot of sense.

    But instead of viewing it all as some putative rebellion against party authority and supremacy, it is perhaps wise to situate it within the contestation of various tendencies, within a very young political party, which nevertheless has had a chequered history, in terms of crisis management.

    A post-nPDP APC, with the combined policy treachery of Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, would appear to face new teething problems.

    But it could also have resulted from in-built pathologies, accumulated from the post-political new breed era, from Ibrahim Babangida’s experiment, that started in 1991.  With a stroke of the pen, IBB built completely new parties and hoped the tendencies and affiliations to 1st and 2nd Republic parties would vanish in the new golden vacuum!

    Well, it hasn’t — and the political party system has been the poorer for it, even with the new breed of yore now coming of age.

    So, if some governors are indeed unhappy with APC’s new direction under Oshiomhole, that is only to be expected.  For the hitherto all-mighty governors — the party be damned! — that portends a power paradise lost, never to be regained.

    It is natural for any group about to lose power to grumble and throw tantrums.  Doing otherwise would not have been human.  If the governors were hitherto lords and masters, who could impose, drop and re-impose candidates, by virtue of their exalted elected posts, it would be only natural for them to kick.

    Now link that with the flamboyant and swash-buckling Oshiomhole style — Oshiomhole, who probably as a governor, was guilty of what he now tries to stamp out among the present corps of APC governors — and you can understand the gubernatorial angst.

    But if the ruling party must move from its teething stages, to build a cohesive and highly integrated outfit, able to impose discipline and enforce its authority, the governors and other hierarchs just must reconcile themselves to shedding present powers for the future good of their party.

    Besides, beyond APC, the Nigerian party system is at the crossroads.  The APC experience: a party, goaded by a treacherous few, that made itself an opposition against itself (reference Saraki’s 8th National Assembly), is only the latest disturbing example.

    Earlier, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had had a field day subverting other parties by poaching their parliamentary members and goading them to cross over, in a brazen display of real-politik, in its ugliest form.

    That has worsened the ideological crisis among the parties (you belong to one, you belong to all).  It has also led to errant and fickle defections, which again the present Saraki National Assembly has brought to a rather ugly nadir.

    So, while the APC governors and other hierarchs fume, at the loss of near-absolute powers to build intra-party dynasties, Hardball thinks the Oshiomhole reforms are on the right track.

    Nigeria’s democracy needs a re-build of the party as a vibrant entity with defined policy and ideological direction.  That is the direction every political party should go.

  • Council primaries: Aspirant protests alleged anomaly

    Aggrieved supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for local government chairmanship aspirants in Ileoluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State have protested an alleged manipulation of the primary election in the council area.

    They urged Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to act as a leader and quickly intervene to avert breach of peace.

    In a petition sent to the governor, one of the aspirants, Jerome Olorunyolemi said in compliance with the party’s directive, he bought nomination form and paid mandatory amount of N250, 000 to contest.

    According to him, the exercise was expected to be guided by Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) guidelines with timetable to guarantee transparent primary election.

    However, the aspirant lamented that the process was shrouded in secrecy to subvert transparency and inclusive participation of interested aspirants.

    He alleged that the chairman of the party in the local government failed to intimate the aspirants, the modalities for the conduct of the primary.

    Olorunyolemi alleged that the development was deliberately designed to favour a particular aspirant, who is the incumbent caretaker chairman in the local government.

    The petition reads: “We are aware that on September 13, a state commissioner from the area told some party leaders in the area that the governor had directed that all current local government caretaker chairmen in the state should be returned to office without subjecting them to primaries.

    “If this trend is true, what is the essence of the directive for participation of interested party members in such electoral processes with the outcome already predetermined?”

    Olorunyolemi noted that the development, if allowed to persist would be a threat to unity of members of the APC in Ileoluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area.

    He urged Akeredolu to intervene by allowing substantial compliance and adherence to democratic norms devoid of open manipulations.

  • Anti-Oshiomole protest rocks Imo

    … party Chair under fire over plot to substitute candidates

    Thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) faithful in Imo State on Monday took to the street to protest the substitution of candidates who won the primary election by the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole.
    APC leaders who led the protest, knocked Oshiomole for “introducing impunity” in the party.
    According to the protesters who displayed various placards such as, “Oshiomole should respect the will of the people”, ‘we say no to substitution of candidates’, ‘Oshiomole is killing APC’, ‘President Buhari, save our party from Oshiomole’, ‘We insist on the result of October 6 Primary’, among others, accused the party Chairman of turning the party’s ticket into “cash and carry” affair.
    Some of the candidates allegedly substituted by Oshiomole were Hon Kingsley Uju (Ohaji-Egbema-Oguta- Oru West Fed Constituency), Paschal Obi (Ideato South and Ideato North Fed Constituency) and Prof. Nnamdi Obiareri (Imo North Senatorial Zone).
    Vehicular and human movements were crippled on major streets in Owerri, the state capital.
    The Secretary General of the Southeast for Buhari Group, Prince Charles Amadi, stated that Oshiomole’s actions are capable of destroying the chances of the APC in Imo State and in the Southeast.
    According to him, the plot to substitute the names of candidates that won the primary elections is tantamount to destroying the party.
    He urged President Buhari to prevail on Oshiomole and other members of the National Working Committee of the party to adhere to the tenets of internal democracy for which the party is known by implementing the outcome of the Ibrahim Agbabiaka led Primary election without any compromise.

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    Another member of the Buhari’s support group and  former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ugochi Nnanna Okoro, stated that the National Chairman has introduced similar impunity that led to the crash of the People”s Democratic Party (PDP).
    She accused Oshiomole of muscling up the NWC and usurping the functions of the members, alleging that, “Oshiomole has moved the Secretariat of the party to his private residence, where he stays to perpetrate all forms of impunity but we will resist him in Imo State, we will not allow him to destroy the party we fought hard to build. We were called all manner of names because we joined APC and today the same people are being treated as sacred cows by Oshiomole.
    “We are by this protest registering our total displeasure with his style of leadership, especially ththe
    The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, described the actions of Oshiomole as alien to the APC, warning that going ahead with the planned substitution of the candidates will not be in the interest of the party.
    Speakers after speakers took turn to warn the National Chairman against inciting crisis in the state chapter of the party.
    Meanwhile the State Chairman of the party, Mr. Daniel Nwafor, who was absent at the protest rally, said that he had pleaded with the party members to allow the NWC to look into their grievances without resorting to protest.
    He however appealed to the leadership of the party to look into the matter and urgently address the issues raised by the aggrieved members of the party.
    Nwafor also assured the party members that their grievances will be addressed, ” our National Chairman is a man with listening ears, he will certainly look into the issues raised by the aggrieved members of our party”.

  • Delta South primary: Four APC senatorial aspirants protest exclusion

    FOUR All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial aspirants in Delta South Senatorial District have protested their exclusion from the party’s primary election even as they dismissed the Delta South Senatorial Primary as a sham.

    Decrying claims through media reports that they were all disqualified and that only one aspirant was cleared for the contest, the four aspirants said they have not been given any reason for their alleged disqualification, adding that they attended the oral interviews and met all the requirements set out by the party to contest for the senatorial ticket.

    In a statement made available to The Nation, the four aspirants, Temisan Omatseye, High Chief Michael Johnny, Evans Omatsoguwa, and AVM Omatsola Okorodudu (retd), petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the party. They called on the party’s hierarchy to urgently address the problem.

    They noted that they paid the sum of N7million, being the cost for the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms, picked and filled nomination forms and followed every process before embarking on electioneering campaign. Based on these, they decried their exclusion from the primary.

    The statement read in part: “We the undersigned, being members of the All Progressives Congress and having paid the seven million naira being cost of expression of interest and nomination forms to contest for the Delta South Senatorial District would like to draw the attention of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, members of the APC worldwide and Nigerians at large on the unfortunate incident that is happening in our party most especially as it relates to the recently conducted scam called senatorial primary that took place in Oleh, Delta State.

    “Based on the electoral guidelines as issued by the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC), we took it upon ourselves to pay and collect the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms, filled out same and submitted to the Director of Administration of the APC and all this was duly acknowledged.

    “We were all invited for screening at Abuja and were all screened by the team appointed by the NWC and chaired by former Senate President Ken Nnamani on Friday 21st September 2018 at the Ladi Kwali hall, Sheraton Hotel Abuja.

    “Based on the oral discussion during the screening process we were informed that our certificates to confirm us being cleared to contest for the primaries will be forwarded to us before the conduct of the primaries. On the basis of that communication, we all set out to our various locations to continue with our campaigns scheduled for 2nd October 2018.

    “There was no further communication from the APC National Headquarters to all the undersigned and based on this we preceded to the election venue on the said 2nd October 2018. While at the venue, we were informed that a publication had been released by the APC that only one person had been cleared to contest the primary election and that we the remaining four contestants had been technically disqualified by the APC.

    “Naturally, we found this very difficult to believe and refused to rely on the mere publication of the news media considering the amount of fake news that is making the rounds… We waited for a direct communication from the APC on reasons being adduced by them for the so-called technical disqualification as they have all our phone numbers.

    “Prior to the publication being made, all aspirants had made efforts to mobilise all statutory delegates from the eight local governments consisting of Bomadi, Burutu, Isoko South, Isoko North, Patani, Warri South, Warri South West, Warri North and all the 87 wards that make up the Delta South Senatorial District to Oleh being the senatorial zonal headquarters.

    “Having spent from 8am to 6pm at the venue, we were again informed through the social media that the APC had postponed all senatorial primaries to the 3rd of October 2018 at 9am. Once again the party did not deem it fit, out of courtesy, to communicate same to all aspirants through their respective phone numbers.

    ”Meanwhile, the only cleared candidate had inundated the social media with claims of him being unopposed, a claim that is false as neither the delegates nor the other four aspirants got together to endorse him in any form.”