The Chairman of Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr. Clement Odah, on Tuesday tasked youths of the council to resist any attempt that would make them reply his opponents with violence or attack in any form.

He handed the task ahead of the council election scheduled to take place on April 25, 2020 across the 13 LGAs and 171 political wards in the state.

The chairman, who is recontesting for a second tenure in office, told newsmen in Abakaliki, the state capital, that his emergence in 2017 was miraculous, and so, nobody should fight or attack any opponent on his behalf as regard to the elections.

According to him, “My project is divine and if you see my campaign poster, it has the inscription ‘Power belongs to God’. I am not struggling with anybody. The position was given to me by God, using divine agents.

“Secondly, the election we are anticipating to hold coming Saturday is a delegate election. The list of the delegates is already known. The delegates are my friends. They know me and I know them. They trusted and believed in me. I believe in them also. I believe, I will have their votes.

“I am absolutely so sure that I will win the election. I have the conviction within me that as God is on my side, the delegates will vote for me.”

Reacting to the alleged protest recently carried out by some persons who against his re-election, Odah said: “What you see on the social media is not qualified to be a protest. That is not a protest and nobody in Ohaukwu witnessed any open protest in any of our highways.

“Somebody sent me a link on WhatsApp that people had placards with a number of things. I looked at it; a few disgruntled elements – I doubt whether they are from Ohaukwu.

“They don’t look familiar at all. But wherever they may came from, I believe that they are a paid rented group of disoriented young men who don’t know what they are doing.

“I also know the propagators of such miserable outing. Definitely, a few persons who may not be happy with the chairman may have done that. I enjoy the support of over 98 percent of the stakeholders of Ohaukwu LGA and that is a fact.

“All the stakeholders and teeming number of youths are with me including the market women and traders. All the traditional rulers, town unions, the clergymen and all other people that matters in Ohaukwu are with me. And so, the insignificant two percent doesn’t matter to me.

“This insignificant number may have seen how God will grant me victory and became restless to the extent of renting some strange students from neighbouring institutions to carryout a cowardly act of protest.

“The made efforts to see our leader at Umuegbe but they were rebuked and sent back shamelessly. And so, there is no protest to the best of my knowledge.

“No reasonable youths from Ohaukwu will protest against me because I have liberated them. And I assure you, if I run for election 20 times, they will vote for me 20 times because I have touched their lives uniquely.”

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