Delta Central Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Hon Evelyn Oboro, is worried about consistent threats to her life.
She alleged that some persons suspected to be supporters of her major rival in the fast approaching National Assembly elections, have been placing calls to her phone with unknown telephone numbers threatening to eliminate her and some of her prominent supporters if she failed to step down for the serving Senator of the opposition party, Ovie Omo-Agege.
Oboro, a serving federal lawmaker representing the Uvwie, Okpe and Sapele federal constituency, told newsmen at a press conference in her campaign office at the weekend that Senator Omo-Agege have been saying unprintable things about her, especially during electioneering campaigns.
She noted that instead of engaging the people on issue based campaign, which has been the hallmark of her ongoing electioneering campaign, Senator Omo- Agege adopted character assassination, derogatory statements and use of black propaganda to describe her person in a bid to launder his battered image occasioned by acute legislative rascality which led to his suspension by the Senate of the federal republic of Nigeria.
The PDP senatorial candidate said she had remained a responsible politician and a highly resourceful federal lawmaker whose pedigree and integrity earned through quality representation, proactive legislative advocacy and charming charisma were intact as reflected in the discharge of her constitutional responsibilities to the Uvwie, Okpe and Sapele federal constituency and the country at large.
She maintained that she strongly believed in civil engagements, warm interface and issue based campaign wherein contents of manifesto were presented and explained to eligible voters without using derogatory statements on fellow citizens and political rivals.
Oboro regretted that Senator Om-Agege, in his ongoing campaign, had deliberately decided to deploy crude propaganda, half truth and character assassination as the focal points of his re-election bid, a development capable of igniting violence and insecurity in Delta Central.
She said she has been a peaceful individual and her teeming supporters and party faithful have been conducting themselves peacefully, stressing that it was unacceptable for Senator Agege, to adopt politics of bitterness, character deflation and misinformation in the ongoing electioneering campaigns.
The PDP senatorial hopeful said the repeated threats to her life through telephone calls, harassment and intimidation was worrisome and appealed to the new Inspector General of Police, Mr. Adamu Muhammed, to use his good offices to give her police protection, as she had become extremely vulnerable to her major rival and other political detractors.
She urged the IGP to redeploy the Police Commissioner in Delta State, for exhibiting partiality in the discharge of his duties; and especially for identifying strongly with her major rival, Senator Omo-Agege and the APC, without a corresponding cordiality and police protection extended to her, a strong indication that the CP has been bought over.
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