Ogboru Hails UPU Endorsement, Calls on Opposition to Join Forces with Him
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Labour Party’s governorship candidate for the April 11 governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, who was recently endorsed by the Urhobo nation as its consensus candidate at the election, yesterday, hailed his endorsement, giving kudos to the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, for a job well done.
He also called on oppositions, particularly his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Chief O’tega Emerhor, to join forces with him in order to ensure the success of the Uvwiamughe Declaration to achieve the goal of the Urhobo nation in the general elections.
Flanked by the party’s senatorial candidate at the forthcoming elections, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, Chief Ogboru told newsmen after emerging from a closed door meeting with the executive committee of UPU, that “I came here to appreciate my endorsement by the Urhobo nation. I am also solidarising with UPU. Victory is sure at the election. I must add that in democracy, opposition is allowed but it should not be taken too far as we are seeing today in Urhoboland.
“Something must be done very urgently to halt the current unwarranted onslaught against UPU by a negligible number of disgruntled people who were once among the exco of the UPU as assistants to major office holders.
“While they do not pose any threat to the victory of the Urhobo nation at the elections, we must take some drastic measures which shall serve as deterrence because nobody can just wake up one morning and say he has the capacity to unconstitutionally set Urhobo nation back. We will not allow that to happen. They must desist from causing further trouble to our 84 years old UPU or face the wrath of the law.”