APC congress: Delta stakeholders parley to foster unity among factions

LEADERS and stakeholders of Delta All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, met to forge unity with a promise to provide a level-playing ground for all party aspirants.

This is coming after few days after the postponement of the party’s wards and local government congresses earlier scheduled to commence on Saturday the 5th of May 2018.

Speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting which held at the country home of the leader of the party, Chief O’tega Emerhor, Emerhor and Chief Hyacinth Enuha, who’s in charge of the party in Delta North, maintained that there was no division in Delta APC.

They said those spreading rumours of a division in Delta APC in Abuja were not on ground and did not mean well for the party in Delta State.

They stressed that APC was stronger and healthier now and battle-ready to oust PDP in 2019 and take over government house.

Acknowledging factionalisation in the party in the state, the duo enthused: “What the outsider considers as the crisis in Delta APC is a healthy competition; we have the Ogboru-Omo-Agege and Emerhor-Enuha tendency in the Delta APC, but after the party primaries we all will work together to defeat PDP at the governorship election.

“This platform is what will produce the APC governor from Delta north in 2019 and will also produce APC governor form Delta central in 2023, in four years from now PDP would be dead in Delta.”

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The meeting has Chief Emerhor, Chief Enuha, Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh, Air vice Marshall Frank Ajobena (retd), Barr. Fred Okpohworo Olokor, NDDC EDP; Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe, and seven APC governorship aspirants in attendance. promises to work together and ensure level playing ground for all party aspirants in order to defeat PDP come 2019 election.

The party governorship aspirants, who attended the meeting, were Prof. Pat Utomi, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Chief Osiobe Okotie, Dr Iyke Odikpo, Dr. Leroy Edozien and Dr. O’Diakpor Obire who all pledged to work with the two leaders to ensure rancor-free party congresses in the state.

The leaders also charged all stakeholders to return home to their wards and LGAs to work out consensus executives that will be supported by all at the congresses where necessary.

Both aspirants and stakeholders also agreed to work together in unity in order to put in place a structure that can win elections in 2019.

They stressed that some members of the existing executives will form the bedrock of the new executives with a view to enhancing its strengths through the injection of new blood.

Meanwhile, Prof. Utomi, Ochei, Dr. Ojougboh, in their remarks, promised one-term tenure if elected governor of the state come 2019, in the spirit of equity and justice.