By Tony Adibe
The National Vice Chairman, South-East of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Ijeomah Arodiogbu has said that the party would demonstrate further strength in the upcoming governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections. Arogiogbu said this in Enugu on Thursday while addressing journalists after a meeting of the Zonal Working Committee of the party.
NewsBits reports that although the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had earlier scheduled the polls for March 11, but it rescheduled it to hold on March 18. He stated that but for alleged intimidation, the APC would have polled more votes in the zone during the February 25, elections.
Arodiogbu said the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Tinubu won the election fairly and urged both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) candidates to congratulate him. He said Tinubu’s victory was of great delight to the party members.
“We are here today to celebrate and congratulate ourselves on the well-deserved and sound victory. Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the election fair and clear. Nigerians showed they want APC to continue the good work it has been doing in the country. They want Bola Ahmed Tinubu to build on the legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari,” he stated.
Arogiogbu claimed that in the Southeast the party could have done better, “but there was so much intimidation and attack on our members. Many of them were not even allowed to vote.” He added that the party could have done better and vowed that it would be a different ball game in the next round of the polls.
“The intimidation of APC members and supporters won’t happen again,” he vowed.
He, however, seemed to have forgotten that the much-taunted obvious friction and infighting within the leadership of the party in the state might have contributed to its said lacklustre performance in the presidential and National Assembly polls.
