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October 6, 2018

DELTA SOUTH PRIMARY: Four APC senatorial aspirants protest exclusion

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By Godwin Oritshe

FOUR, All Progressive Congress, APC, senatorial aspirants in Delta South have kicked against their exclusion from the primary without reason despite meeting all the requirements and urged the party’s hierarchy to address the problem, urgently.

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The aspirants, Temisan Omatseye, High  Chief  Michael Johnny, Evans Omatsoguwa, and  AVM Omatsola Okorodudu, retd, in a statement, yesterday, dismissed the Delta South senatorial primary as a sham. Noting that they paid the sum of N7million being the cost for the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms, picked and filled nomination forms and followed every process before embarking on electioneering campaign, they decried their exclusion from the primary.

The statement read in part: “We the undersigned, being members of the All Progressives  Congress and having paid the seven million naira being  cost of expression of interest and nomination forms to contest for the Delta South Senatorial District would like to draw the attention of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, members of the APC worldwide and Nigerians at large on the unfortunate incident that is happening in our party most especially as it relates to the recently conducted scam called senatorial primary that took place in Oleh, Delta State.