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LG poll: PDP no longer popular in Rivers, afraid of defeat—APP

Recall that the State PDP, Aaron Chukwuemeka, at stakeholders meeting at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said the ruling party in the state would not participate in the council polls, saying it is awaiting the outcome of a case filed by the All Progressives Congress led by Chief Tony Okocha against the conduct of the elections.

Chukwuemeka also took a swipe at the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, alleging that the electoral umpire did not extend any invitation to the PDP as it did to other parties in the state for its stakeholders meeting where the date of the election and other issues were agreed upon.

But speaking at a Senatorial campaign in Ahoada East local government area on Wednesday evening, the State APP Chairman, Sunny Wokekoro, said the PDP was being clever by half and merely giving flimsy excuses.

Wokekoro slammed the PDP for relying on a case according to whether such was instituted by another party as a reason for boycotting the LG polls in the state, when in truth it knows that the APP would have defeated the ruling party fair and square had they fielded candidates.

He stated, “On the 5th of October, the Action Peoples Party is going to clinch the councillorship election in all 319 wards. We are also going to win the chairmanship positions in all 23 local government areas of the state. Nobody can stop us, victory will be ours because the people are with us and God is with us.