The All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta South Senatorial aspirant, Chief Michael Diden, popularly known as Ejele, has called on the APC Senate Appeal Committee for Delta South to cancel the outcome of the party’s senatorial primaries, alleging that the figures announced were falsified in the office of the current Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Area, Hon. Godwin Ogorogba.
Ejele, reacting to the results announced by the APC Delta South Senatorial Returning Officer, described the compiled figures as unacceptable.
According to the declared results, the serving senator, Joel-Onowakpo Thomas polled 87,805 votes, while Chief Michael Diden (Ejele) secured 30,794 votes.
Speaking on the exercise, Ejele alleged that the primary election, which he said ought to have been conducted in a peaceful and transparent manner, was manipulated through the connivance of party officials and returning officers.
“The election was supposed to be a brotherly affairs, but in Isoko North, the report I got was that results were written
at the office of the local government chairman, Hon Godwin Ogorogba.“They pursued our people away from the scenes where they compiled their results at Hon Godwin Ogorogba local government office.
“We expected that the committee will look into the matter and do the right thing. The purpose of me wanting to go to the Senate is to serve my constituency as Delta South has suffered so much. Everybody knows that when I am there the constituency will be better served. I have been a local government chairman, served in the Delta State House of Assembly,” he said.
Ejele further maintained that his ambition to represent Delta South in the Senate was driven by his desire to improve representation in the district.
“I want to correct some things that the serving senator has not done well, I want to serve my people, but the real sense there was no competition, any time there is no competition, the process is as good as dead,” he added.
