URGENT PRESS RELEASE:
After due consolidation with my leaders, supporters and constituents all over Egor LGA, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that my interest in the primaries for the contest to obtain our party APC ticket for the 2019 House of Assembly Election is hereby discontinued with immediate effect.
In the course of my campaign leading up to the primaries, my supporters have been subjected to unmitigated intimidation, harassment, humiliation and all manner of unbearable abuse. In spite of these, my supporters remain stead fast and determined to ensure victory under a conducive, free and fair electoral setting.
However, when matters gravitated to blatant blackmail and threats of arrest of my ardent leaders and supporters by the Government it became imperative that I should step in. I do not consider the quest for a legislative seat sufficient reason to expose the lives of innocent people to grave danger neither do I accept hunger for political position as justification to jeopardize the career of those who believe in my interest.
Accordingly, while not succumbing to the savage antics of human haters parading our political space. I hold tenaciously to the welfare of my people who I have served without any blemish since 1998 when I veered into partisan politics.
Once more, I salute the courage of my teeming supporters who have remained resolute in the face of evil and to the good people of Egor. I pledge to continue to promote, protect and serve their interest always. Most especially I thank our national chairman and my boss, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for his astute leadership of our great party APC.
Signed
Barr. Henry Idahagbon