Delta North APC Says Congress Did Not Hold In Senatorial District, Materials Hijacked, Blames Loyalists To Agege

By Daniel Dafe

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta North Senatorial District, has said that “there was no Ward Congress in the nine (9) local government areas of the zone,” adding that “the Ward Congress materials were reportedly hijacked from the APC Ward Congress Officials from Abuja at the Asaba airport.”

A statement signed by OGBUESHI BEN ONWUKA, Senatorial Chairman, APC
Delta North Caretaker Committee and APOSTLE V.E.O. SOROKWU, Senatorial Secretary, APC
Delta North Caretaker Committee, said that they await the urgent intervention of the national leadership of the party and urged “party faithful to remain calm and unruffled while the affront is being addressed accordingly.”

According to the statememt, “APC Delta North Senatorial District had watched actions and activities leading to the purported Ward Congresses today, Saturday, 31st July 2021, for which the distinguished leaders Council of Delta APC had copiously petitioned the national secretariat.”

Adding: “The district, which hosts the APC Delta State Secretariat received confirmed reports of hijack of the Ward Congress materials directly from the Ward Congress Committee (WCC) delegation sent from the APC headquarters in Abuja to oversee the process.

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“According to the APC 3man WCC Officials they were accosted by a certain Nick, who claimed to be the State Organising in the escort of armed securitymen at Asaba airport.

“The Abuja delegation further revealed that the said Nick was phone number was recorded, told them he was sent by the Delta APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Prophet Jones Erue to ensure their safety and safekeeping of the Congress materials.

“However, on arriving at the Delta State APC Secretariat, the WCC Officials realised they had been misled and the materials hijacked from them to an unknown destination.

“This revelations came forth during a press conference addressed by the WCC team from Abuja on Thursday, when hundreds of protesting aspirants, who had paid for nomination forms besieged the state party Secretariat to collect their forms but were given forms.

“The aggrieved party faithful, who are significantly members of the APC in Delta North District, subsequently brought their protests to the leadership of the party in the senatorial district.”

The statement continued: “Curiously, investigations of the APC Delta Senatorial Office revealed that the said hijacked Congress materials were in the custody of a pressure group in the state, loyal to the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.

“The same Omo-Agege group were said to have convened cluster of incongruous meetings across the state and purported constituted themselves as ward executives from today’s supposedly ward Congress.”

Furthermore, they said that they remain steadfast and resolute in their “determination to unclutch Delta State from the vicegrip of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) since the inception of this democratic dispensation come 2023.”

“The revelation emanating from the Supreme Court judgment on the Ondo State governorship election, no doubt has cast gloom on the political pysche of our great party.

“We therefore implore every well meaning faithful of APC to pause and reflect on the legal implications of the judgment, though we are aware the custodians of our party APC are up to the challenge posed by the aftermath of the apex court’s verdict,” the statement said.