2023: Kenneth Gbagi Stood Himself Out As Formidable Leader to Govern Delta......Urhobo Group

By Ezekiel Kagbala FPR

The former minister of Education, a frontline Governorship Aspirant for the 2023 Delta State Governorship, Chief Kenneth Gbagi has been scored high by the Urhobo Progressive Agenda, stating that Gbagi is standing out to promote peaceful coexistence among other ethnic groups in Delta State.

In a statement on Saturday by the national president of Urhobo Progressive Agenda UPA led by Comrade Onoriode Felix in Ughelli disclosed that Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has stood himself out as a formidable leader that Delta needs to succeed incumbent, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa.

Onoriode Felix commended Gbagi for honouring the Ijaws and creating a stronger bond of unity between Ijaws and Urhobo's ahead of the 2023 election.

He commended the Ijaw monarchs for receiving Gbagi, thanking them for expressing confidence that, Gbagi as a proven entrepreneur and industrialist would be best placed to help carry out the much-need industrialisation of the state and to step up the tempo of development of the state if elected 2023.

FocalPoint can report that Kenneth Gbagi recently, visited the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kingsley Esiso, as Women elders and youths thronged the Sapele venue of the meeting in their hundreds, dancing and singing solidarity songs.

The Urhobo pressure group also boasted that Gbagi started his consultations early to prove to Deltan's that capacity to win the 2023 Governorship and provision of good governance is nonnegotiable.

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