Ndudi Elumelu, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, was not sent away from the Oko community in Delta State during the PDP campaign, according to the lawmaker’s campaign organization.
The Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu Campaign Organization reported that during their visit on Wednesday, the campaign train was welcomed in Oko the Oshimili South Local Government of the state.
According to reports, Elumelu had been barred from entering the neighborhood because he had failed to address local problems as a legislator over the years.
But according to a statement made on Thursday by Eloke Aziekwu, the Director of the Oshimili South Campaign Elumelu Campaign Council, there was no such incident.
The statement partly read, “At no time was the well-received PDP Ward to Ward Campaign in Delta North Senatorial District disrupted or challenged, let alone prevented in Oko by angry youth as claimed in the said publication.
“Also, at no time did any persons, group of persons or youths challenged or stopped the Minority Leader, Rt. Hon Ndudi Elumelu from entering Oko Community or any other community for that matter as purported in the misleading report.
“Contrary to the said report, PDP Ward to Ward Campaign train which had the Minority Leader and other leaders like Senator Ned Nwoko, Bridget Anyafulu and all the PDP candidates in the forthcoming 2023 elections, was excitedly received by the people of the Oko Community, especially the youths, who came out enmasse particularly to cheer and celebrate Hon. Elumelu for his numerous development projects and citizen empowerment in the area.”
It was included in the statement added that the campaign train was welcomed by the youth leader.
It added, “The youths of Oko community, through their leader, properly identified as Mr. Chukwudi Okolie, warmly welcome and appreciated the Minority Leader for attracting projects to their Communities and declared their resolve to re-elect him to the National Assembly.
“The community recalled the numerous empowerment schemes and infrastructural projects by Hon. Elumelu, including the 26-point Oko landing bay, initiated and completed by him as part of his constituency project, with 8 brand new 22-seater speed boats to shuttle between Oko and Asaba, which will be commissioned in January 2023.
“The Youth Leader, however, used the opportunity to call for intervention about the state of a particular road and the issue faulty transformer and urged the campaign train to take their message to the state government.”
