Tension as PDP, APC disagree on secuirty on Warri waterways

By Emma Amaize 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.