An All Progressives Congress (APC) Board of Trustees (BoT) and the National Caucus member from Abia state, Chief Ochiagha Benjamin Apugo, says the party has not done anything in the state to deserve victory in the general election.
Apugo made the assertion in a press statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
He also distanced himself from a report that linked him with the endorsement of the candidate of the APC in Abia state, Chief Ikechi Emenike.
Apugo said it would not be politically unwise to support a party that could not fix the strategic Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene road and the Umuahia-Ohafia-Aro chukwu road respectively, maintaining that both the APC and the PDP have failed Abians and should be roundly rejected.
He also vehemently refuted the notion of anti-party when reminded about that.
“What is anti-party? What I am telling you is the correct thing. They haven’t done anything here. I am saying it with annoyance. With the position that I held in APC, nothing. I am not talking about myself. I have not gotten even one contract from them. No employment for one single person since 8 years. So, what are you talking about anti-party? They know that what I am talking is the correct thing. They have not done anything to my people here. They didn’t do one single thing here in my home town which is the capital of Abia State. No federal presence”, he said.
Apugo also commended the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) innovation and enjoined the Abia electorate to come out on the election day and vote for Otti for governor and Obi for President for the development of Abia and Nigeria at large, stressing that the era of election rigging was over.
“In the first place, the electoral act does not permit anybody or give anybody chance to rig elections. What you can do is vote buying which is also a crime covered by law. So, if you think that somebody is going to rig the election, I doubt. If they will rig elections, they will rig it in other states. Here, we are ready to die instead of thinking that we are alive when we don’t have hope. So, boys and girls will protect their votes. Men and women will protect their votes and we are going to vote for the best. I don’t think money will solve this election. Who are you giving money to? Are you giving somebody who’s nearer to the grave? He’s already dead and you are giving him money. He wants to resurrect, he wants to come back to life”, the Prince of Ibeku land stressed.
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