Delta 2019: I remain APC reps candidate, says Niboro

A former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ima Niboro, has flayed the purported substitution of his name by the APC as a House of Representatives candidate in Delta State for the 2019 polls.

This was just as the aspiring federal lawmaker accused the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC of bias and contempt to a subsisting court order.

Niboro, who disclosed this in a statement by his campaign organisation in Abuja over the weekend, also contended that both APC and INEC acted illegally by submitting “illegal candidates.”

“I emerged legally at the APC primaries and was validly nominated candidate of APC. If any names were to be published by INEC, it must be mine.

“Unfortunately, the party that held out so much promise to millions of Deltans has descended into near chaos and many of us in the state are bemused about how we got to this sorry state,” the expresidential spokesman said.

He said Jones Erue, a factional Chairman of APC in Delta State, who supervised a parallel primary with fake delegates, lacked constitutional powers to do so, as he had been restrained by a court from parading himself as the chairman of the party in Delta State.

He further noted that a Federal High Court in Asaba had on November 1, issued a contempt of court notice on the National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole, and INEC for disobeying its order not to submit or accept any list of Delta APC candidates for the 2019 general elections until the case was resolved.

Niboro, however, regretted that despite the court order that status quo be maintained, Oshiomhole went ahead to submit names of purported National Assembly candidates from Delta APC to INEC, which also went ahead to “illegally” publish same.