APGA Guber Candidate Flaws Electoral Peace Pact

The gubernatorial
candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Rivers State, Alatubo Charles Harry has picked holes in last week’s peace accord signed by three major governorship contestants in next month’s elections.
Alatubo Harry, while speaking during a phone-in media programme organised by Silverbird Communi-cations in Port Harcourt, said the peace accord was selective and would fail.
He carpeted the organizers of the event for not including other parties, reasoning that it was discriminating and would not achieve its goal.
“They invited the people they felt that are prone to violence and it’s such a shame. It’s quite disconcerting and I don’t know what to put to it that barely 48 hours after signing the peace pact what is happening in Okrika is happening,” he said.
The APGA condiate reiterated that such pact was supposed to include all parties, pointing out that last weekend violence in Okrika has shown that the peace pact was mere lip service.
Speaking on his emergence, Harry insisted that he was not imposed, but was rather selected as a substitute candidate by the party’s national body.
“I came in as s substitute candidate and you know, substitute candidates don’t go through primaries. So it will be fallacious to say I did not participate in the primary elections,” he explained.
Harry who was former chairman of Rivers Democratic Movement (RDM) advocated for a total change in the political orientation of the state, stressing that is the only way to bring about change.