Francis Sadhere
The Labour Party (LP) Governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru weekend said his party is going to form the next government of the state, adding that the party had no intention of merging with the All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other party.
The LP candidate said this at his residence in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state while speaking to our correspondent in an interview, reacting to a rumoured merger between his party and the APC.
Ogboru said those peddling such rumour are mischief makers trying to undermine the popularity of his party in the state, stressing that the next governorship election in the state will determine who occupies the number one seat in the state.
He said despite APC wining the presidential election in the state, his party is waxing stronger and stronger as his supporters are resolute to elect him as the next governor of the state.
While saying that the result of the presidential election has diminished the power of the ruling party, PDP, it has also paved way for LP to emerge winner in the next gubernatorial election, noting that APC does not have the wherewithal to contest against LP in the state.
He therefore advised Deltans not to be carried away with the euphoria of victory of the APC at the national level, saying that Presidential elections are different from state election, and that the masses will determine who they want come April 11.
He urged Deltans to vote for people that are tested and will carry them along in governance, arguing that he is best fitted to rule the state as he represents all sections of Delta State.
“We should look for credible and tested leadership that is connected with the grassroots and whose aspiration and that of the electorate will be the same to make the state functional. I will tell them to be steadfast in their faithfulness to the Labour Party and myself as your governor in waiting. Come April 11, go and vote for labour party. Do not be afraid and I can assure you that the government I will lead will be a responsible government and will relate with all the institutions, including the federal government,” Chief Great Oghoru said.
On the crisis rocking the apex cultural body of the Urhobos, Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Oghoru said there is no crisis in the body, noting that the body remains a united body and that the outcome of the governorship election in the state will determine which faction of the UPU is right.
Speaking on the outcome of the senatorial election in Delta Central, Ogburo said the senatorial election was fraught with mass irregularities that does not suit the conduct of abproper election, adding that was why they protested the outcome in Asaba.
He said: ” The senatorial election in Delta Central has been cancelled and I believe most of the elections in that area will be cancelled too because in reality there was no election in Delta Central.”
The LP candidate also revealed that during the presidential elections, his party found results sheets meant for the next governorship elections in the hands of the Resident Electoral Officer, demanding that another result sheets be made available before the next election, threatening that it will not participate in the next governorship elections if those results sheets were not changed.
He also called for the removal of all the Electoral Officers in Delta state saying he was not satisfied with their conducts in the last general elections.
Ogboru said: “When we were doing the inventories of the materials in the last election, we found governorship result sheets for my election in the process. Governorship result sheets are sensitive materials. We have the serial numbers of those materials with us. And for such materials to be exposed it only means that somebody could easily clone those materials and will have a prepared results of his own.”
“We have already written a petition that those result sheets must be condemned. We met the REC and he told us that it was a factory defect, and that when they produced those results sheets they mistakenly mixed them with the result sheets of the senatorial election. We then told him to return those results sheets otherwise we will not go into the elections with confidence.”
