No election held in Warri North LG, says APC
WARRI— All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, claimed that no election took place in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State during last Saturday’s council polls, threatening to go to court.
This came even as members recounted how they were allegedly attacked by suspected political thugs.
While victims of the alleged attacks were said to be receiving treatment at unnamed hospitals in the state, no fewer than 30 vehicles of APC and its members were equally said to have been vandalized by the thugs.
Meanwhile, women of Gbokoda, Udo, Tebu and Aja Amita communities in Warri North, yesterday, demanded a re-run of the local government elections for them to elect their true leaders.
The women, on the platform of Women Forum, WF, in a petition addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Benin, and copied to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Commissioner of Police, Department of State Service, DSS, Asaba; JTF Commander, among others, expressed total rejection of the outcome of the elections.
While declaring that no election took place in the local government, state Organizing Secretary of APC, Mr. Amorighoye Mene, described the present administration in the state as “bad and wicked,” claiming that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was not on ground in North Warri Local Government.
Mene alleged that PDP, led by a Warri Chief (names withheld) brought thugs to attack APC members and destroyed more than 30 vehicles belonging to them.
APC councillorship candidate for Abi-Ugborodo ward in Warri North Local Government, Mr. George Inowandajegha, said: “I was attacked with a machete by PDP thugs.”
Another victim of the alleged attack is Mr. Siko Eyenmi, from Ogbonbiri, who is APC vice chairmanship candidate for Warri North.
The petition, by Mrs. Grace Golly and Mrs. Mercy Fregene, Chairperson and Secretary, respectively, said: “Whoever is sworn in as chairman or councillor was not elected by the people of Warri North as no election was conducted.”
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