A press statement on Wednesday 30th December 2020 by his Press Secretary, Akpodhoma Michael. A, pointed out that the said publication is false, fake and emanated from the pit of hell.
According to the statement, “The story is false, fake and from the pit of hell. The issues here are straightforward, if the man in question didn’t threaten suicide over several elections he has contested and won since 2003 and other leadership positions in the National Assembly, why should he contemplate such horrendous path over mere Local government election?
“The claims in the story are classically fake and outright lies from political loosers and serial blackmailers, who are desperate and ready to go all length to actualize their ungodly political ambition in 2023.
“First, the lawmaker’s initial choice candidate is from Ozoro, but owing to agitations from the minority communities, the Governor and the party leadership appealed to the federal lawmaker who is the political leader of Isoko North Local Government Area to throw his weight behind any of the aspirants from the minority groups. That was how Deacon Christian Iteire from Oyede emerged the Peoples Democratic Party PDP candidate, ahead of the March 6th 2021 local government election.
“It’s on record that on 20th December 2020, during the party’s leadership meeting at the country home of the federal parliamentarian, Mr. Christian Iteire who he supported and stood for, got seventeen votes while the other candidate got just five votes.
“What then should bring lamentation, humiliation, tears and several other gibberish used in the concocted report? The lawmaker’s preferred candidate already won during the gathering of twenty three political leaders where seventeen voted for Iteire during the leadership meeting. Where exactly is Leo camp jittery seriously coming from if not from the hallucinations and figment of the imagination of political losers.
“If anyone was and still shedding tears, shivering and threatening suicide, perhaps it should be among those who have hidden agenda for 2023. At the moment the lawmaker is not considering contesting any election in 2023, and as the leader of Isoko North PDP, he is grateful to His Excellency Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the Governor of Delta state and the leadership of the state PDP over the peaceful conduct of the party primaries.
“We therefore advise the general public to disregard as fake and negative publications, the story as reported by Sahara Reporters and other social media platforms. They are nothing but fabricated falsehoods by political distractors, losers and blackmailers bent on discrediting the peaceful leadership of the political party in Isoko North”, the statement added.
