Uduaghan calls for peaceful PDP ward congress

Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to ensure that the ward congresses of the party across the state are conducted in a peaceful atmosphere.

He decried the desperation of aspirants that has led them to start “spending money where they are not supposed to.”

“What is important is the state party structure, you cannot work outside the state party structure; the procedure is clear,” he said.

Uduaghan spoke at a meeting of aspirants for elective positions on the platform of the PDP at the party’s secretariat in Asaba, Delta State, on Friday.

“Instead of keeping money to work at the grassroots, people are spending money where they are not to spend money,” the governor said, adding that “it is important that people go to the field for the elections, whether by consensus or not.”

Secretary of the party, Solomon Ogba, declared that the congress would hold in 270 wards in the state.

“In every ward, there is a returning officer; we are also going to have state monitoring officers. The issue of electing ward delegates is a state affair, accreditation starts at 8am,” Ogba said, adding, “I appeal that we should make this congress as peaceful as possible.”

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