Tension as PDP, APC disagree on secuirty on Warri waterways

WARRI- THE People’s Democratic Party, PDP,
and All Progressives Congress, APC, differed ,
this morning, on the sacurity situation in the
riverine communities of Warri, Delta State, for
today’s Governorship and House of Assembly
elections.
While a former PDP chieftain and chairman of
the Delta Waterways Security Committee,
DWSC, Warri, Delta State, Chief Ayirimi Emami,
who defected to the APC, few days ago, said
there was tension on the waterways, current
PDP chairman in Warri South-West local
government area and deputy chairman of
DWSC, Chief Boro Opudu, said there was no
tension in the waterways of the state over the
election, as claimed by Emami.
Chief Emami, also a former chairman of PDP
in Warri South-West local government area,
who spoke to Vanguard on phone, said he was
escorted by the army to the riverine
community of Ugborodo, yesterday, following a
siege to the waterways, yesterday, by some
Ijaw boys at Kurutie area.
He said his step mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Emami, was harassed and other voters going
home to participate in today’s exercise ,
detained and beaten up by unidentified Ijaw
boys in broad daylight, yesterday.
But, Chief Opudu, said when contacted, that
some people were trying to make mountain
out of a molehill.
He said that Chief Emami called him to
complain that his step mother was being
harassed, adding that his investigation
showed that the matter was not exactly the
way it was painted.
According to him, Chief Emami called his new
party and they reportedly mobilized the
military to escort him to his community, “but
that is not to say that there is tension in the
creek, things are going on normally from
information available to me.