South: Giadom-led APC Zonal Working C’ttee kicks off assessment tour in Delta

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the National Vice Chairman (South South) of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Hon. Victor Giadom on Saturday led members of the zonal working committee on a fact-finding and assessment visit to Asaba, the Delta State capital.

The visit to Delta State signals the official kick-off of the party’s evaluation tour of States in the zone, which is aimed at interfacing with leaders and critical stakeholders of the APC to ascertain the health of the party in the 6 states of the geopolitical zone, for purposes of securing victory in 2023.

Addressing Delta APC stakeholders in a townhall meeting in Asaba, the party’s Zonal Chairman, Chief Victor Giadom disclosed that the tour is at the behest of the national secretariat, is designed to enable first hand understanding of issues that may inhibit the electoral fortunes of the APC, even as campaign begins latter in September ahead of the  2023 general elections.

“We are here this evening on the directive of the National headquarters of our great party, not just to visit Delta State but to visit all the states in the south south zone. These we believe will enable us at the center to understand the health of this party, things we are doing rightly and the things we ought to improve upon”.

“I am sure all of us here will agree that we have about five months to election, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC will on the 28th of this month lift ban on electioneering campaigns all over the country, at least for that of the national election, the presidential election and national assembly elections”.

Giadom emphasized that the zonal working committee was in Asaba to listen to all and will collate reports from the tour for critical evaluation of happenings in each states and fashion out ways of resolving every single issues identified, with a view to guarantee and secure election victory for the presidential, governorship, national and state assembly candidates of the party in the states.

“So it means that we are getting very close to action time and it becomes important for us as a political party to come back to our respective states to critically evaluate what is happening in our respective states so that we can report to the center and be able to fashion out what will be necessary, including the messages and the things that we need to do to enable us secure victory in our respective states”.