By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye
The Coalition of Delta APC Support Groups, CDASG, has described has described the allegations of anti-party activities leveled against the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Hon. Loretta Onochie as a calculated attempt to taint the shining image of the top APC chieftain in bad light,
The group has also stated that it was not unaware of the coordinated resistance against her nomination for the NDDC job by some Deltans holding high positions in the National Assembly, who no doubt, are still behind the wicked allegations and instigation of her Ward Executive of the APC to cook up the said suspension.
The CDASG in a press release issued at the end of it’s emergency meeting Sunday April 2, 2023 signed by it’s spokesperson, Comr. Perez Edou and Coordinating Secretary, Comr. Onyemachi Obi, which was made available to newsman in Ughelli, strongly condemned the gale of suspensions and expulsions currently raging in the Delta APC in recent times.
According to CDASG, it was expected that after such an embarrassing outing in the 2023 general elections in which the APC failed woefully in Delta State, it was expected that the leadership of the party should go to the drawing board and make concerted efforts on how to rescue the drastically fallen and battered image of the party instead of the witchhunting vendetta it has begun.
The group, which revealed that it has resolved to send a strongly worded letter to the national leadership of the party, maintained that the stage for failure in the 2023 general elections had been set since the ill-fated party Congresses which were heavily hijacked and stooges of just one leader were hoisted on all members across the stage.
“It is no news that since the party Congresses which were hijacked by DSP Ovie Omo-Agege who installed only his supporters as party executives right from Ward to the State levels, in order to have smooth ride to clinch the party givernorship ticket, there has never been any genuine attempt to reconcile the various tendencies within the party,” the statement said.
It further noted that beside the angers of the hijacked party congresses, “there have still not been a totally acceptable reconciliation and integration of the supporters of Olorogun O’tega Emerhor whose anger since the duo of Omo-Agege and Great Ogboru hijacked the party, and this is further worsened by the pull out of Ogboru with more than 80% of those in the Ogboru/Omo-Agege camp.”
The Coalition of Delta APC Support Groups emphatically stated that since the party congresses and stage-managed primary where Omo-Agege contested against himself to emerge party standard bearer, there has been widespread anger among majority of the party members “but, instead of finding ways to ensure total reconciliation and integration of all interests, the one-sided party leadership went into the elections thinking that manners will fall from heaven, which of course, didn’t happen.”
“We consider it a misplaced priority for the Elder Omeni Sobotie-led State Working Committee of the APC to embark on such miscalculated voyage of suspending and expelling critical stakeholders from the party,” the group said, adding that “such actions would only further dampen the image of the party and even frustrate whatever efforts to fight the outcome of the just-concluded elections in the courts.”
The group revealed that contrary to the claims of anti-party upon which Onochie was allegedly suspentes, she was actually the highest financier of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidential campaign in the state, with a track record of mobilizing all pressure groups in the state to work tirelessly for Tinubu and the APC.
They therefore cautioned the party, especially the Ward level that is being used to slam unwarranted suspensions on top ranking stakeholders of the party, to desist from such acts that are capable of pulling down the entire roof coverage of the party in the state.*