AHEAD of Saturday, November 6 Anambra State gubernatorial election, the Action Democratic Party, ADP has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and all the Security agencies are on trial, saying that they cannot afford to fail Nigerians by not getting the poll right.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja at the presentation of party flag and official flag off of the campaign of the ADP standard-bearer, Comrade Afam Douglas Ume-Ezeoke, Chairman of ADP, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani said that what Anambra state and the entire country require at the moment is peace which explains the official symbolic presentation of the white handkerchief and name of the party.
The party has also vowed that it was not afraid of the Presidency, Federal might, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP or anybody as it was fully prepared for the election as a party, just as it has promised through the candidate to provide good and transparent government; which they have pledged free and qualitative education.
According to him, the people of the state have decided to break away from bondage and have a guarantee, happy future for their generations yet unborn, saying that presentation of the flag,” is to us in the ADP a formality that, best regarded as the CONSOLIDATION of the party’s campaign and mobilization in the historic contest.”
Sani ” In other words, barely six days to the D-Day, our party could not have been flagging off its campaign at this eleventh hour without cogent reasons.
“In the wake of the unfortunate atmosphere of insecurity which has disrupted the normal conduct of social and economic activities in Anambra and most other states in the Southeast of the country, the ADP very early in the day, embarked on a campaign strategy which has proved very effective and without endangering the safety and security of our members, our teeming supporters and the general public.
“Our strategy, fashioned and spearheaded by the party’s flag bearer and his team, is the resort to the painstaking option of interpersonal contacts and door to door campaign.
“We thank and commend Comrade Ezeoke for bringing up this ingenious strategy which has resulted in giving the ADP several leaps ahead of the other political parties in the race to the Government House, Awka. Through that unique mode of the campaign, tens of thousands of Anambra People have registered with us and are now card-carrying and financial members of the ADP.
“A greater multitude of the electorate have been mobilized and convinced to buy into the philosophy and programmes of our great party as well as believing in our candidate as the most credible alternative to the shambolic chain of leaderships that have held down the progress and prosperity of the state all these years.
