ARROGANT AND INFANTILE DUP FORCING A NEEDLESS BY-ELECTION ON THE PEOPLE OF DROMORE SAYS ELLIOTT
In a hard hitting statement Mr Elliott accused the DUP of wasting rate-payers money in the Dromore area which could have been avoided with a simple co-option. He said,
“Tyrone Howe stood down honourably on the grounds that he felt unable to devote the necessary time and duty to the post of Councillor given his other business commitments.
From my experience in Fermanagh where Arlene Foster stood down last summer, we in the UUP did not force a by-election. We also did not ridiculously insist, as the DUP tried to in Dromore, whom our preferred candidate to replace Arlene in Fermanagh should be. It is a ludicrous, arrogant and infantile assumption for any political party to make.
As a result of this arrogant and infantile approach is that the people of Dromore will be subjected to a needless by-election that wastes rate-payers money. The DUP have a lot to answer for.”