By Henry Obetta

The Media Director of Anioma State Creation, Mr Tonnie Oganah, has cautioned those celebrating the victory of their candidate to exercise restraint lest they run fowl of the law, saying that the official and authentic results of the exercise which held on Monday.

He said the results can only be announced by the All Progressives Congress (APC) national headquarters in Abuja and signed by the chairman of the party.

Oganah, in a statement on Tuesday, noted that all the candidates in the election have their strongholds and announcing partial results amount to half truth and half truths are embellished lies capable of misleading the public.

He said: “Ned Nwoko symbolises the Anioma dream of identity and economic liberation as he wants Anioma to have 3 Senators and 9 house of representatives members as opposed to only one Senator and three house of representatives members that it currently has.

“He also desires that the list of state assembly members and councillors will triple whilst new local government areas will be created with Asaba remaining as capital.

“Anioma people are not stupid and short sighted as to abandon their bright future because of mere crumbs and inducement offered by other candidates.

“Ned Nwoko has been known to be the first top politician in Delta State to openly declare support for President Tinubu and APC long before others joined and at the appropriate time during elections in January 2027 the entire Anioma nation will say thank you by voting APC all the way.

“Anioma people don’t want to enter the Guinness book of records for negativity by not supporting Ned Nwoko and President Tinubu, both of whom are working to actualise the dream of empowerment for Nigerians and the Anioma nation in particular especially as the party is supreme and will consider several factors before officially naming their flag bearer in any elections.

“What is more, there has to be clear evidence in the public domain of resignation from a former political party before membership of a new party can be valid under both the electoral law and the APC constitution. Membership of two or more political parties is an offence and no one is above the law.”