By Cynthia Eruotor
All Progressive Congress (APC), a major political opposition in the state, over the weekend, hit by massive deflection of the party’s faithful to the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the former House of Assembly candidate, Hon. Innocent Umukoro defected from APC to PDP.
In a chat with newsmen at Uhweru Community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, the former APC House of Assembly candidate, Umukoro Innocent berated the leadership of the party for their greediness and self-centeredness. Umukoro called on all his supporters to move from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the mainstream political party in the state just as he lamented the years he wasted in APC saying, if he had spent it in PDP, he would have been given recognition and appointment.
His words:”I regret the years and financial resources I wasted in APC over the years without recognition, it would have been better if I had invested it in PDP .Today, I renounced my membership of All Progressive Congress (APC) with all my supporters, we are moving on with the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP)”.
In a related development, the Chairmanship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in Ughelli North Local Government in the forthcoming council elections, Olorogun Jaro Egbo revealed that his mission and assignment is to deliver Ughelli North from kidnapping and make it habitable for the next three years. Egbo stated this when his ward-to-ward campaign train visited Uwheru, Ogor, and Evwreni Wards in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.
Addressing mammoth,he said, Ughelli North leaders gave him an assignment with strong approval from Governor Oborevwori for him to deliver Ughelli North for three years adding that, he would what is humanly possible to ensure the people get the dividends of democracy.
He said:” Whatever sacrifices we will make to ensure that Ughelli North is delivered for PDP, we will do it and I appeal to our brothers in Uwheru to be united to form a formidable force. We urge you all to work together as brothers and sisters and if you can remember the meeting I was made the reconciliation committee Chairman, I emphasized that we must work together. We must unite because as a Chairman, I have no faction and I will only listen to the leadership of the party and when it is not right, I will protest but I will still do it. Let us eat and wine together because we are all one”, he concluded.
According to him, his administration will strengthen the local vigilante to work in synergy with security agencies to flush out kidnappers, oppressors and aliens who rape women in the state. He also promised to work with traditional rulers in the kingdoms to ensure that kidnappers and criminals are not harbored in their various kingdoms.