By Tony Edike

ENUGU—Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has said that the absence of opposition parties in Enugu State was attributable to the wholesome acceptance of the policies and programmes of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP- led government by the people of the state.

Chime who stated this while leading the party’s campaign tour of local governments in the state in readiness for the November 2 local government polls observed that this was borne out of the fact that all the PDP chairmanship candidates in the 17 local government areas in the state were running unopposed as no other parties fielded candidates.

All the candidates of All Progressives Congress, APC, for the election were, yesterday, disqualified by Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission, ENSIEC.

The three chairmanship and 16 councillor ship candidates, who were earlier given provisional clearance to contest the election were disqualified by the ENSIEC over issues relating to non-payment of taxes.

The development caused tension and confusion in the opposition camp weekend with the leaders threatening to drag ENSIEC to court today.

However, Chime recalled that the PDP had recorded similar results in the 2011 elections in the state stressing that the candidates of the party were products of wide consultations and dialogue among the people who chose and then presented them to the party.