A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, in Delta State Ayiri Emami, has warned serving lawmakers from the state to forget automatic tickets, stressing that their various positions will be contested because they defected from the Peoples Democratic Party.
Emami explained that there was no political agreement with anyone that the positions would not be contested.
This was disclosed on Saturday, at a welcome party held in his honour by Prince Francis Agbowosile in Ugbuwangue Community in Warri.
Emami said: “When I was away, our party’s chairmanship candidate in the last council election, Prince Francis Agbowosile, celebrated my 50th birthday anniversary. I was abroad and it happened that the period fell on my birthday.
“I thank Francis for what he did. I was away when the PDP collapsed its leadership into the APC. We are now one.
“Though we have new entrants in our party, we will still keep our relationship. Now we have all agreed to work together for President Bola Tinubu. We will continue to stand with him.
“We will also support the governor of the state because we are all one. No automatic ticket in APC for Delta State House of Assembly, we must contest. I will not ignore Chief Ovie Omo-Agege.
“We won’t say because of the new entrants we will forget our original party leader whose structure we stand on.
“As Chief Ovie Omo-Agege was campaigning he was also campaigning for President Tinubu.”
“We nor get agreement with anybody to that effect. Anybody wey say Dem nor go contest their position because them come join APC, lie. We must contest all positions.”
