‘SDP Ready For LG Polls’

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) says it will use the opportunity of the local government council election and the ‘Third Force’ to re launch its party in the state and capture some council chairmen in some local government council and councilors.
The State Chairman of the party, Engineer Joshua Worlu who stated this last week shortly after the release of the 2018 local government council election in the state capital said the current trend in the party is a welcome development and a sign for new beginning for democracy in the country.
Worlu noted that the party is ready for the council election but urged the state electoral body to ensure that all the political parties are given equal opportunities.
The party Chairman who claimed that he was in Abuja when some high profile politicians from the West decided to join the party, stating he beliefs that the current situation in the polity is a logical outcome of people running platforms and not parties.
He assured that the party would do things according to the philosophy and principles and discipline of SDP, noting that selection of candidates will be through democracy and not by hand picking as it is done in some parties.
Worlu said what has been missing in other political parties is discipline, adding that the party will not go that direction.
According to him, ‘’ we have a leadership that controls the party; a leadership that upholds the principles of the party regardless of who is involved. I think when everybody knows that, we begin to have a cleaner political environment.
He commended members for their endurance and patience all these years,assuring that the party is moving to a greater height and will begin with the local government council election in the state.
On grants for political parties, the chairman said his party has a functional office at the busy Aba road before Atillery junction, sayingthe RSEIC decision is not only welcomed but will discourage and prune the numbers of political parties in the state.