Oborevwori Defection Plot By APC To Control Delta Resources, CP-PDP Alleges
The Conference of Professionals in the Peoples Democratic Party (CP-PDP) has alleged that the defection of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori was a plot to take total control of Delta State resources.
The CP-PDP also alerted the people of Delta State of a high-powered plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to use the coerced defection of Governor Oborevwori to their party as a gateway for total control of the state treasury.
CP-PDP, in a statement by its Protem Chairman, Barr. Obinna Nwachukwu signals that “this is part of the vicious move by the APC to further impoverish and subjugate Nigerians, decimate the opposition, muffle dissenting voice, undermine the democratic sovereignty of the people and pave the way for the imposition of a totalitarian and oppressive one-party regime in Nigeria.
“Information at the disposal of the Conference is to the effect that APC leaders blackmailed Governor Oborevwori to defect to the APC as a condition to end the unwarranted harassment of former Governor Ifeanyi Okowa with the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It is also alleged that the APC leaders have upscaled their demand to include surrendering significant control of Delta state oil wells to APC Cabal in Abuja.
“There are also allegations of plots by the APC to ensure total control of the Delta state resources, by demanding that Governor Oborevwori should rejig his government and hand over sensitive positions to the Cabal to fill with core APC members.”
The CP-PDP said that “this is in addition to alleged insistence by the APC Cabal to take complete control of the state by implementing what it called the ‘Lagos Option’, where defectors are not guaranteed tickets for the 2027 general elections.”
The CP-PDP added that this undemocratic annexation script which started in Rivers state and now extended to Delta state, is apparently part of APC’s scheme to “capture” the Niger Delta and sequester the resources of the Niger Delta region to the detriment of the people of the region and Nigeria in general.
The PDP group stressed that it is clear that the APC is not ready for a free, fair, and transparent electoral contest, having been rejected by Nigerians due to its misrule,e, which has worsened in the last two years.
“As professionals and patriotic Nigerians, the CP-PDP firmly condemns such underhand tactics by the APC which is aimed to divert public attention from its misrule and abysmal failures, weaken Constitutional Democracy, whittle the electoral rights of Nigerians and perfect a domineering and oppressive one-party rule in our country,” the CP-PDP said.
The Conference cautioned that the approach by the APC is capable of derailing and pushing Nigeria’s democracy with its gains of justice, freedom, accountability,ty, and the Rule of Law to the precipice.
The CP-PDP called on all patriotic Nigerians to save the nation’s democracy by resisting these anti-democratic tactics and strategies of the APC, which is now manifesting in Delta State.
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