Sapele-Okpe community decries lopsided political appointments since 1999

The leadership of Sapele-Okpe community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State has decried alleged  lopsidedness in elective and appointive positions in the local government since 1999 till date.

It warned that the situation was breeding social disharmony and mutual suspicion  in the locality.

Rising from an executive meeting of Sapele Okpe community, held at Okpe Hall, Adeola Road in Sapele over the weekend, the leaders appealed to the major political parties in the state to consider picking their candidates from Sapele urban which, though has eight wards, has been marginalised for long.

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“We narrow it down to the House of Assembly and we are making an appeal to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, and the various political parties, that Sapele has two political arrangements, the urban and the ruraland. Over the years, the rural has been dominating the political space of Sapele.

“As I speak, the current commissioner of DESOPADEC is from the rural, the current House of Assembly member is from the rural; the Sapele Local Government chairman is from the rural. At this time, we are appealing to PDP and APC that we have 11 wards and rural has just two and half and urban has eight and half, so by that simple equation, we are supposed to be dominating political space of Sapele, but that is not the case.”

The leaders, therefore, appealed that the political parties should feature candidates from the Sapele Urban, adding that they were fully prepared to determine their destiny.