By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI — Ebonyi State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, boasted that it would win the April 11 governorship and House of Assembly elections with ease as the party has penetrated  all the 13 local government areas of the state.

In a statement by the state PDP Publicity Secretary, Apostle Benjamin Obaji, the party affirmed that its victory at the last presidential and national elections were a clear testimony of the strength and capacity of the party to win the next election in the state.

According to the party scribe, what is left for Ebonyi people is to turn out in large large numbers on April 11 at individual polling unit, to vote for the PDP in the state.

Obaji added that the candidates of the party for both the governorship and House of Assembly elections were credible and had the support of Ebonyi people and stakeholders behind them.

The statement read in part: “Right from the inception of the present democratic process in 1999 till date, Ebonyi has proven its unshakable alliance with PDP as it showed on the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections of  March 28, 2015.

“We want urge the people of Ebonyi to increase the percentage recorded in the last presidential election from 83.5 per cent to 99.5 per cent to prove that they appreciate the contributions of the PDP towards the economic viability of Ebonyi people.

“It is no more a speculation or an assumption that Ebonyi State remains the home and one of the strongholds of the PDP in the country.”