LAGOS MAY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwig, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has condemned Delta State All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate in 2015 general election, Chief O’tega Emerhor utterances faulting Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan’s statement over voting pattern in South-South and South-East zones of Nigeria.
It would be recalled that Emerhor has vehemently disagree with Uduaghan’s statement that the people of South-South and South-East zones voted 90 per cent for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), while the rest of Nigerians in those zones voted for the APC. He ascribed PDP electoral success in those two zones to systematic rigging.
Reacting to Emerhor’s allegation while addressing the media at Osubi Airport, Warri, Delta State, Onuesoke argued that Uduaghan’s analysis cannot be faulted hence PDP has more voters strength in Delta State like other states in South-South and South-East geographical zones while evidence are bound that APC do not have structures and such not expected to win election in these areas.
According to him APC won election in South-West and Nnorthern part of the country is because the party has structure in those area, adding that the issue of having rigged election as claimed by Emerhor should not come in.
He argued that Emerhor’s argument that PDP rigged election in South-South and South East zones is a fallacy as the reverse is the case for APC in South-West and Northern part of the country, adding that what Uduaghan had said about the voting pattern in the last general election is the true situation of things.
“ I wonder why Emerhor is castigating Uduaghan on this issue. It is a fact that the voting trend in the last general election saw PDP winning South-South and South-East zones, while APC won both the North and South-West zones as explained by Uduaghan. This pattern of voting is shown in both Presidential, Governorship and national Assembly”.
Onuesoke maintained that If PDP rigged the election in those zones as claimed by Emerhor, the pattern of voting in the Presidential election would have been different from that of the National Assembly.
“In Delta state it is a fact that APC which Emerhor represent do not have any structure so there is no way he would have expected his party to win any seat in the state,” Onuesoke noted.
He advised Emerhor to accept defeat or go to the electoral tribunal instead of making false accusation.