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More states in the
south-south geopolitical zone of the country will be taken over by the
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in the 2011 general elections. This
was the view of a Delta State executive of the party, Adego Eferakeya.
Mr Eferakeya said this while speaking to journalists after the
south-south zone caucus meeting of the party in Benin City yesterday.
Mr Eferakeya said all arrangements have been put in place to ensure
victory for the party in more states of the south-south, just as they
said the party will meet Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC)’s deadline for the submission of names of candidates for the
elections.

“We should work hard so that we can win more states because, as you know, ACN is the only party contending with PDP,” he said.

“We also spoke
about the primaries that are coming up, the dates will be fixed very
soon but tentatively, we expect that the primaries of the Action
Congress of Nigeria tentatively would be on the 6th for the state
houses of assembly, 8th, national assembly, on the 11th, the
governorship and on the 15th of January 2011 will be the presidential
primaries. We have all agreed that there will be a meeting of the
national body that will ratify and some of these dates may change. We
are also looking forward to collecting forms of expression of interest
and nomination forms which you know are very essential before primaries
can be conducted.” All together, Mr Eferakeya said all members present
at the meeting have said they are prepared to work hard for the success
of the party because they know that “divided we fall united we stand.
All of us are working in harmony to ensure that we win more states,” he
said.

The party official
also expressed optimism that security agencies will live up to
expectation of providing adequate security during its primaries and
meetings to avoid the series of explosions that have rocked some
political gatherings in the last few days.

The Edo State
Deputy Governor, Pius Odubu called on the party members to work hard to
achieve their set goal of winning more states in the region. He also
urged them to ensure that their followers do not disrupt the process.
Edo is the only state in the south-south that is being governed by the
Action Congress of Nigeria.