APC not ready for Saturday’s election, says Senator Olaka Nwogu
*Describes Mega Campaign Rally as Charade
Amaka Agbu, Port Harcourt
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s Re-Run Election for Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Olaka Nwogu who is to slug it out at the electoral polls with Senator Magnus Abe, has described the campaign rally by the All Progressives Congress (APC) which held at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium on Thursday, as nothing but a charade that clearly showed that the APC did not prepare for the election.
Senator Nwogu said in a statement issued from the press unit of his campaign organization in Port Harcourt yesterday that the 16,000-capacity stadium which he described as half empty, was not a shocker to Rivers people who, he said, knew all the while that the APC existed only on the pages of newspapers.
The PDP candidate noted that it was common knowledge that the APC went to neighboring states to hire crowd, adding that the “empty seats at the stadium show that you cannot fool the people all the time.”
Senator Olaka Nwogu also called on youths of the Rivers South East Senatorial District to ignore APC’s alleged call for violence and to make the right choice by voting for him and other PDP candidates.
He said: “We are not surprised at the emptiness of the stadium which is another evidence of a failed political party. Even the lens of the television camera could not conceal the deceit. This does not only show the wide rejection of the APC in all fronts, but the crowd they hired from neighboring states apparently disappointed them.”
Nwogu, the former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment, said that his belief in the people of the Rivers South East remained unshakable, stating that the election on Saturday was a litmus test to give the APC a decisive and final defeat at the polls.
He emphasized that the PDP, as the only party with genuine commitment to the welfare of Rivers people, would never waver in propagating a non-violence and peaceful election.
