PDP Candidate Has Capacity Of Uniting Deltans –Aniagwu

 AHEAD of the gubernatorial election, eight governorship candidates and the leadership of their political parties in Delta State have stepped down their ambitions and declared total support for the Governorship Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. 

The candidates, led by Prince Henry Eze of Allied Peoples Movement (APM), said in a news conference in Asaba, that their decision to jettison their ambitions and endorse Oborevwori for tomorrow’s election was in recognition of the massive achievements of PDP, especially Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in the state. 

The political parties Action Alliance (AA), Action Democratic Party (ADP), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Peoples Party (APP), Accord Party and Booth Party. 

According to Eze, Delta was a traditional PDP state and for stability and furtherance of an atmosphere for inter-party harmony and cohesion, it became necessary to

 adopt a governorship candidate with good political credentials, pedigree and general acceptability as consensus candidate for the 2023 governorship elections in the state. He said “the choice of our consensus candidate fell on Rt. Hon Sheriff Oborevwori of the PDP who happens to be the current Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly. 

“Oborevwori has worked very hard, embarked on ward-to-ward campaigns and done wide consultations with virtually all known stakeholders in the state. “Delta State political stakeholders believe in continuity and the present Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has performed creditably well in office and it is therefore natural that another PDP Governor should continue from where he stopped in order to consolidate on the gains of his administration.” 

He added that it was common knowledge that All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in the country had plunged Nigeria into untold hardship, created an embarrassing security situation that led to banditry, terrorism, kidnapping and other security challenges. 

“The recent acute fuel scarcity in Nigeria, the biting Naira squeeze and near collapse of our educational system has made it clear that the APC government is not one to vote for. 

“As Nigerians battle to upturn the stolen Presidential mandate by Ahmed Tinubu, we should not on the other hand be repeating the same mistake by installing the leprous APC government in Delta State”, Eze stated. 

Eze further remarked that the eight governorship candidates came together to endorse Sheriff Oborevwori “as consensus candidate based on the following reasons”. 

“Delta State requires a candidate that would continue the laudable projects of Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and Rt. Hon Oborevwori has proven to be a good administrator and a team player, having become the longest serving Speaker in the history of the Delta State House of Assembly and the first to transmute from one administration to another. 

“Oborevwori is a calm, calculatked workaholic, a devout God fearing Christian, who can be entrusted with the management of human and material resources. 

“Delta people can no longer endure the pains of another APC government after causing suffering, anguish, deaths and pains that is making Nigerians look like beggars in their own country. 

“Like the Americans would say, there is no changing the winning team. PDP Governors in Delta have brought peace and development to the state and there is no reason why we should change a party that is doing well. “From this end, the governorship candidates of APM, Prince Henry Eze, Emeka Bidokwu (AA), Oghenejabor Onome (AAC), Cosmos Annabel (APP), Emmanuel Ogba (ADP), Engr. Okolie Austine (ADC), Fred Obi of (Accord), and Umudane Sylvester of (Booth Party), are stepping down their governorship ambitions to declare their support for Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. 

“We have taken this all important and crucial decision with the backing of the relevant organs and membership of our various political parties”. 

…Oborevwori Has Capacity Of Uniting Deltans -Aniagwu 

BY SUNDAY EGEDE 

DELTA State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, on Thursday, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has produced a gubernatorial candidate that has the capacity of uniting Deltans in the person of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori. 

Mr. Aniagwu, who disclosed this at a press conference held in Asaba, said Rt. Hon. Oborevwori had the needed democratic credentials and the pedigree to consolidate the tempo of sustainable socio-economic growth and development in the state. 

According to him, Oborevwori had held sway as the Speaker of the State House of Assembly for the past six years, adding that he had been able to pursue development trajectories to prove that he is a pan Deltan in the last six years. 

He pointed out that Rt. Hon. Oborevwori cannot be compared with other gubernatorial candidates in the state who, he said, were sectional in nature, stressing that Oborevwori was the right man to govern the state after Governor Okowa. 

“Apart from Mr. Gbagi, none of you have seen anyone of them carry out any campaign before the presidential election. Can you now say that these are the people that are serious to campaign?, he asked. 

Also speaking at the press conference, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Mr. Olisa Ifeajika berated Kenneth Gbagi for saying at the Arise TV debate that local government councils in the state do not receive allocations correctly, which, he said, was a lie from the pit of hell. “We all know the governor told us last Monday how much the state government augment the resources of local government councils in the state. “How can the state government that helps local government councils tamper with their allocation,” he queried, even as he said that all the candidates that appeared on the Arise TV debate demonstrated crass ignorance about the health scheme in Delta as they were planning to introduce what the Okowa led administration was already been doing for Deltans. 

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