Obidients in Delta State, have denied any knowledge of endorsing the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Augustine Omo-Agege, ahead of the March 18th gubernatorial election.
This outright rejection of Omo-Agege gives strength to the endorsement of His Excellency, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi OON, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the forthcoming governorship election.
Chairman, Special Duty Committee of the Labour Party, and ex-presidential aspirant on the platform of National Rescue Movement, NRM, Dr Emeka Mandela, who disclosed this during a press briefing.
He denied that the Obidients family did not endorse the governorship candidate of the APC, Omo-Agege.
According to him, “It is being rumoured that the Obidients have endorsed and are supporting the APC for the March 11th gubernatorial election.
Hear him: “We called you because of some news making the rounds that the Obidients family of Delta State have endorsed and is supporting the APC candidate for the 11th general elections of the gubernatorial and state Assembly.
“Please, to the viewers out there listening and all supporters of Labour Party and the Obidients struggle, this is a false news.
“We have come here to debunk such rumour saying that the Obidients family are supporting the APC for the next election coming up on Saturday.
“The APC has plugged Nigeria, into darkness. Let it be on records that the APC has put sorrow over the land and the youths of Nigeria, are still mourning.
“We are sad and we are using Saturday as an expression of the demonstration we should have been doing on the street by now.
“We decided to sheath our swords of the demonstration that you should have been seeing around the nation but to take that demonstration to the polls against APC.
“We are taking these demonstrations in the polls round Nigeria, Delta State inclusive. The Obidients family are going to have a demonstration in the polls on Saturday against APC.
“We are going to come out en mass and give a protest vote against APC. Delta State Obidients family members, this struggle of a new Nigeria, will never die
“The common enemy we have is APC and we will stop at nothing to get them all out of power so that we can breath a fresh air” he said.
Continuing, Emeka said; “periods like this, you will have all sorts of groups, claiming to be whatever they want. We the Obidients don’t have such alliances, it is totally false. Any Obidient that goes to that direction is on his own, automatically, he is not with us.
“You know our antecedents, you know the way we move, we move as Obidients, we follow due process, we don’t just go in different sections with different banners. We are a group and we make decisions.
“Like we are here today, we decided to come here and give our words to Deltans because of what we see in the media. We are here to disassociate the Obidients family from the APC.
“For the Obidients family, we all know how we communicate to you, our communication is organic; the same way we have been communicating is the same way you will be communicated. Information we get to all of you; we are organic, our information is organic, stand strong.
“When the real Obidients are talking, you will know, we are not here to joke, we are here to say that we don’t have any pact with the APC. That’s the message we are passing and I think it is very loud and clear. The Obidients family are not without faces, we are known. We go for verifiable characters”.
Mr Ikenna Azomchine of EU Frontliners for Peter Obi, who also spoke, said; “It will be absurd for any Obedient to see the APC as a breaking force, is impossible. Imagine a situation where APC is in government here in Delta State, our rights to protest will be seriously marred. So is impossible for any right-thinking Obidient to endorse APC. We see some articles in the newspapers, I think these are all jokes. The APC can never be a friend to Obidients, I can say it clearly, we can’t even envisage such a union”.
Also, South-East Coordinator of Peter Obi for Good Governance (POGG) and member of LP presidential campaign council, Mr Nmaduabuchi Chekwubechukwu, said; “I can only say that we should remember our slogan of consumption to production and that cannot be found in APC”.
