LEADERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta State, have lauded the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) for proactively replacing the state’s Chairman of the Ward and Local Government Congress Committee, Alhaji Sani Dododo, with Hon. Emmanuel Chindah, for unilaterally announcing the ward congress result.
Chieftains of the party in the state, AVM Frank Ajobena (rtd), former Abia State military administrator, Chief Hyacinth Enuha, leader of APC Delta North and Dr Cairo Ojougbo, an APC governorship aspirant, while speaking separately, commended the NWC for their decisive action.
TribuneOnline recalled that Dododo announced the results of the 270 wards of the 25 local government areas of the state at the party’s state secretariat in Asaba, after the May 5 congress without the inputs of other five committee members or adherence to party guidelines.
According to the information gathered, Dododo was axed for failing to act according to the stipulated party guidelines, thereby compromising the entire electoral process which inadvertently aggravated the crises in the party in the state.
To nip the drift in its bud, the NWC promptly sacked Dododo and replaced him with Hon. l Chindah, who is now charged with the conduct of today’s Local Government Congress with other committee members.
Also reacting to the development, a chieftain of the party in Delta State, Chief Engr. Hyacinth Enuha said the prompt removal of Dododo by the National Working Committee of the party was the best step in the right direction.
The foremost leader of the party in Delta North stressed that the action of the sacked chairman, who unilaterally announced the ward results without a recourse to what really transpired in the fields, was a deliberate call for the crisis within the party and a gross violation of the Congress’ guidelines.
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On his part AVM Ajobena (rtd) noted that the issue was simple, adding that; “from all indications, the chairman was highly compromised; it’s as simple as that; he cannot be part of a committee and be working separately from other members of the committee.
“He was hijacked by the Delta State APC chairman who already had declared his position by aligning with renegade group in the state, and that is my view of what has happened.
“As far as we are concerned, these people have been working behind the scene, compiling the list and using unorthodox channels to create confusion in the state.
“We are commending the NWC for taking a decisive action and as stakeholders, we are willing to work with the new chairman.”
APC governorship aspirant, Dr Ojougbo, while speaking, stated that the good thing about Dododo’s removal was that the APC is growing in Delta and the fight is an internal fight among brothers and sisters, stressing that the party will emerge from the fight stronger.
“The good thing is that the APC is a party of rule of law, the law has been applied judiciously, everybody must now come together and corporate with the new chairman, so that the Saturday LGA congress would go smoothly and that APC as a party of progressives, everybody with ambition should pursue their ambition without fear or favour and legitimately.
“Nobody should be engaged in trying to bribe or hijack Congress officials so that this party can grow the way it is growing in lips and bounds,” he enthused.