Delta APC refutes calls by LG boss on zoning Senate Presidency to South-East
The All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State has refuted calls on the national leadership of the Party to zone the Office of the Senate President to the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria.
Recall that the Chairman, Aniocha South Local Government Area in Delta State, Norbert Sochukwudinma had in a statement appealed to the Party’s national leadership to zone the position to the SouthEast.
The Delta State APC’s rebuttal was signed and made available to DAILY POST by its Publicity Secretary, Valentine Onojeghuo.
Onojeghuo said, “The Delta State leadership of the Party wishes to set the records straight by rebutting and stripping these interviews of all their worth.”
According to Onojeghuo, “The views canvassed by the Aniocha South LGA Chairman do not in any way reflect the position of the Party in the state on the zoning of principal offices of the 10th Assembly. Pastor Sochukwudinma, went beyond his bounds with such sweeping comments on the issue.
“The APC in Delta State is of the firm position that the zoning of principal offices of the 10th Assembly is the discretionary responsibility of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Party.”
He said, “These press interviews he granted were without the authorization of the Party leadership in the state. The statements credited to him are personal sentiments anchored on overzealousness and being uninformed.
“The leadership of the Party in Delta State regards Pastor Sochukwudinma’s action as an uncouth affront to the duly constituted hierarchy of the Party.
”Despite several verbal reprimands by well-meaning leaders of the Party to desist, he continued on the path of ignominy in order to satisfy parochial, rather than the large interests of the Party. His conveyance of the impression that local government Chairmen of the Party in the State and other zones are in sympathy with the position he expressed is an outright illusion, erroneous and should be discountenanced in its entirety.”
Onojeghuo further warned that “The Delta State APC will not tolerate nor condone such deviant acts of indiscipline from officials of the Party. The granting of ignorant and unapproved press interviews based on unguided whims is capable of painting the party hierarchy in the state to the national leaders of the party in a very poor light. It is therefore unacceptable.
“Consequent on the foregoing, the Delta State APC wants to sound a note of warning to all party officials, at the state level, local governments and the wards, that any future reckless and unauthorized media comments without clearance from the State Party leadership would be viewed as an infraction and met with commensurate sanctions.”
