The All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Kogi Central district, Engr Abubakar Sadiku Ohere, says the spate of defections of members of opposition political parties into the APC is a welcome development.
Prof. Solomon Avidime, the Chairman of Ohere Political Vanguard (OPV), expressed their position in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.
Avidime said that any progressive political party would be interested in its growth, spread and numerical strength to win elections.
According to him, the latest fusion of some opposition parties in the zone, led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), into the APC has emboldened party members and strengthened its support base.
According to the chairman of the OPV, more political juggernauts are bracing up to join the APC because of its flavour and stuff of the candidates flying the party’s flag for the 2023 general elections in the state and country at large.
“The decision of the Social Democratic Party in Kogi Central to collapse into our great APC and work for the success of our party is gladdening and the outcome of wide consultations amongst the political gladiators in this zone.
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“The OPV is joining positive forces with stakeholders to ensure the victory of APC at all polls across the state and particularly in Kogi Central.
“OPV wishes to assure all decampees of equal treatment and fairness as exemplified by His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello, whose leadership style is magnetising the opposition in our state,” declared Avidime.
He claimed that OPV is in dialogue with many other opposition figures and political parties to join the APC ahead of the 2023 elections.
“But this is not a tea party. It is a result of hardwork and determination to win clean the upcoming polls in Kogi state.
“While we are campaigning in the nooks and crannies, the opposition are on a voyage of media propaganda.
“Even the major opposition PDP in the state are withdrawing in to their cocoons because of APC’s sterling performance. We are sure of a landslide victory in Kogi,” the OPV chairman explained.
Prof. Solomon Avidime, who is a fertility and Gynae endoscopy specialist at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching, Zaria, expressed optimism that APC would clinch the governorship, presidential, state and national assembly elections in Kogi State because of the quality and credibility of the candidates.
However, the OPV chairman called on APC members to sustain their performance and campaign by remaining steadfast and focused on delivering the party at the 2023 polls.
He advised Kogites to remain peaceful and law abiding even at the peak of provocations throughout the electioneering and beyond for the development of the state and Nigeria at large.
