Politics
APC Is Set To End PDP’s Oppressive Rule In Delta– Ogboru
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Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Great Ogboru, has said that the APC was ready to put an end to what he described as 19 years of oppressive governance by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state with a clear victory that will return power to the people.
Ogboru who spoke with reporters at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, is confident that ongoing reconciliation efforts within the party will position it as a winning party in the state.
“I have heard people saying Delta is a PDP state; that is highly untrue because majority and a very significant number of our people are not PDP complaint. Most of the people in Delta State, that is the electorate have been oppressed by the PDP government for the past sixteen years, maybe for the past nineteen years.
“But as you all know, the PDP has been able to sustain itself in many parts of our country, Delta State inclusive by means other than true or proper votes of the electorate. That is history now because times have changed, circumstances have changed, power has changed, the leadership of our country has changed and the thinking of our people across the country generally has also changed.
“So, I believe that those limiting factors that militated against us in the past are not quite there anymore to make it impossible for us to achieve what we need to do which is to make sure the votes of Delta people will count, translate those votes into victory and to put the government in place for Delta people which is government for the people, by the people and for the people. That is why I am a candidate.
“The crises are in two folds. One was the crisis that started during congresses, and those skirmishes that followed the primaries. We have done a lot as a party in the state to reconcile factions and aggrieved persons and the national leaders have sent a reconciliation committee.
“At the governmental level, I know that the Vice President called aggrieved members and some warring factions to come and sit on the table of brotherhood to find a way forward. Largely put, I think progress is being made. A few grievances are still lying unresolved, but now the party has put better input and resources in place to put its house in order as much as it can to make sure that Delta State APC emerges victorious in the next election.”
Source: The Nation
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