The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has called on the people of the state to take the forthcoming collection of Permanent Voter Cards serious, with a charge on top government officials and party leaders to be in the vanguard of the sensitisation campaign.
Uduaghan has already commenced sensitisation meeting with relevant stakeholders on senatorial district basis to ensure that voters collect their permanent cards when the distribution kicks off on August 15.
At a meeting with Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders from Delta Central Senatorial District in Warri on Monday, Uduaghan stressed that the collection of the PVCs was as important as the registration exercise.
He said: “”The collection of permanent voters’ card is a very serious exercise because your wining any election, whether local government, state or federal, depends on your voter cards.
“So it is for us to mobilise our people, our community people, our families, our party members to go and collect their permanent voters card.
“I expect that the party at the senatorial level will also meet with the local chairmen, council chairmen and map out strategies on how to ensure that people go and collect their voter cards.”
Dr. Uduaghan, who explained that the meeting was also to rob minds on the forthcoming local government election in the state, commended the peaceful approach that the various aspirants and their supporters have adopted so far and urged them to continue to maintain the peace.
The governor expressed the hope that the series of party activities being undertaken would produce credible candidates that would not only fly the PDP’s flag in the forthcoming polls, but win both as chairmen and councillors seats.
He told the party leaders, aspirants and stakeholders that it was possible to have a consensus candidate where that was the opinion of the majority.
Uduaghan, who observed that the PDP was the only party currently mobilising for the forthcoming local government poll in the state, reiterated that his party was working hard to “win and we shall win freely and squarely”.
His position he explained was against the background of his being the leader of the PDP in the state, adding: “I do not owe any apology for saying PDP will win all the seats in the forthcoming election.
“I want to advice that if you don’t get it (the ticket), there is no need trying to defect to another party because there is no other party that can carry you the way PDP is carrying you.”
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