A former House of Assembly candidate of All Progressives Congress APC in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, Hon. Innocent Umukoro has defected from APC to the Peoples Democratic Party PDP ahead of the forth coming Local Government Elections in July.
Mukoro speaking to newsmen at Uhweru community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, berated the leadership of APC for their alleged greed, selfishness and self-centeredness.
He urged his supporters to move from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the mainstream political party PDP in the state.
Mukoro lamented the years he wasted in APC, noting that if he had spent it in PDP he would have been given recognition and appointment.
“I regret the years and financial resources I wasted in APC over the years without recognition, it would have been better if I invested it in PDP.
” Today I renounced my membership from the All Progressive Congress (APC) with all my supporters we are moving on with the ruling party in the state, the People’s Democratic Party(PDP)”.
Meanwhile, the Chairmanship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ughelli North , Olorogun Jaro Egbo revealed that his mission and assignment is to deliver Ughelli North from kidnapping and make it habitable for the next three years.
According to him, “Ughelli North leaders gave me an assignment with strong approval from the governor, the assignment is for me to deliver Ughelli North for three years, and anything I will do to ensure that I deliver, I will do.
“Whatever sacrifices we will make to ensure that Ughelli North is delivered for PDP, we will do it and I want to appeal to our brothers in Uwheru to be united to form a formidable force.
“We want you all to work together as brothers and if you can remember in that meeting I was made the reconciliation committee chairman, I emphasized that we must work together.
“We must unite because as a chairman, I have no faction and I will only listen to the leadership of the party and when it is not right I will protest but I will still do it. Let us eat and wine together because we are all one.
” My administration will strengthen the local vigilante to work with security agencies and flush out kidnapping, oppression and kick against the raping of our women by aliens”
“I will work with our traditional rulers to ensure that in our environment, criminals, and kidnappers are not harbored in their various kingdoms.
The PDP and Egbo’s ward-to-ward campaign train visited Uwheru, Ogor, and Evwreni wards in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State at the weekend.
