- Ugboma, chief medical director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), also received decamping members of the PDP to the APC.
- He accused Rivers PDP of planning to arm members of the Neighbourhood Watch Corps (NWC) in the state
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Henry Ugboma, has assured supporters of the opposition party in Rivers State that Governor Nyesom Wike will be defeated in the forthcoming general elections.
Ugboma, who is the chief medical director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), further warned politicians in the state against arming thugs during the elections.
Ugboma spoke on Monday, March 27, at a one-day sensitization and reception for decampees from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and other political parties in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni and Ahoada-East local government areas of the state to the APC.
Ugboma urged people of the state to reject the recently passed and assented, Neighbourhood Watch Corps (NWC).
According to him, the paramilitary organisation is more of a militia group allegedly planned to be used by the PDP to rig the 2019 election in the state, adding that APC will clear all the seats in the elections.
“Now that 2019 elections have drawn close, they want to arm the youths again.
“I urge the people of Rivers state to stand up against the setting up of a militia group in the name of neighbourhood watch. They should reject it,” he said.
The leaders of the decampees, Wisdom Sylvester, Nnruka Nzekwesili, Elder Innocent Ojo, Rochas Akitikpo and Uwandu Blessed said they left the PDP because of lack of people’s oriented policies and projects.
In a similar development, the publicity secretary of the PDP, Samuel Nwanosike, said the Neighbourhood Watch Corps was to strengthen the security of the state and not planned to be used by the party.
Theportcitynews.com earlier reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost some of its members to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Omoku, hometown of the Rivers state chairman of the PDP, Chief Felix Obuah.
While receiving the defectors on Saturday, March 3 at Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, ONELGA (Omoku) local government area, Professor Ugboma, assured them that the APC would produce the next Governor in Rivers State come 2019.
