Sheathe your swords, former APGA candidate tells others
…says 2023 Delta governorship, HOA elections credible
By Nosa Àkeñzua
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate for the 2023 House of Assembly election in Delta State, Ogbueshi Eugene Umunna, has urged aggrieved candidates to sheathe their swords, and accept the election’s outcome
Recall that since the conclusion of the elections and the winners announced by Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) , upset candidates and their political parties have approached the election petition tribunals to overturn the verdict of the electoral umpire
However, Ogbueshi Eugene Umunna who represented APGA in Oshimili South Local Government Area in the election that Bridget Anyanfulu of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) won, differed in his conviction
Speaking to journalists in Asaba, Ogbueshi Eugene Umunna held that the elections’ results reflected the people’s desires, and urged upset Candidates to sheathe their swords and support the winner of the elections in the interest of peace and development.
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According to Ogbueshi Eugene Umunna: “I at this moment, call on fellow Candidates to sheathe their swords and accept the election’s outcome as true reflection of the people’s desires bearing in mind that we are all winners and remain so..Yet, one Person must be declared. To all my supporters,I thank you wholeheartedly, I am eternally grateful to families, friends, and well wishers for all your Prayers, advice, Support and Corrections , Truly , the story does not end here, and we owe it as a duty to support and positively criticize the winners”.
Ummunna who had long congratulated the election winner in Oshimili South, Bridget Anyanfulu, also extended his felicitation to the governor, Chief Sheriff Francis Oborovwori, and other elected persons across the state, stressing that he remained a member of APGA but preferred to support the winner of the elections for the continued progress and development of Oshimili South Local Government Area in Delta State.
