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2023: Okowa Gives Delta Central Condition for Governorship as Kenneth Gbagi Joins

2023: Okowa Gives Delta Central Condition for Governorship as Kenneth Gbagi Joins Other Aspirants, receive Defectors


A head of the 2023 governorship election in  Delta State, the State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has given what seems to be a condition to the Delta central senatorial district if they are to produce the Governor in 2023.

This come as the Frontline Aspirant, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi and other Aspirants stormed the PDP Delta Central Mega really in Sapele Delta state on Saturday.

Governor Okowa maintained that the district should remain united in their quest for the governorship seat in 2023.

According to the governor, no one wins election with few number of people, stressing that as a politician, there are things he looks out for at every political rally.

"The truth is that someone who wants to go for competition, will put his house in order. He must put his house in order", Okowa, reiterated.

"You cannot say you want to contest election and carry 15 persons, it will not be easy. My own is to speak, your own is to listen", just as he pleaded with party faithful in Delta Central to work with their leaders, women and youths so that the party could get stronger and be position aright.

"As a State, we are one united family, as a party in the PDP, we have never been divided. Once we take a decision, we go along with that decision. The decision is not about me, it is not about anybody, it is all of us and what is best for the PDP.

"And at the appropriate time, I want to assure you, we will sit down and we shall take a decision and it shall be well with all of us, PDP and Delta State and all of us will be happy for it".

The elated governor expressed satisfaction over the large turnout of youths and women at the rally.

"When I enter somewhere, there are things that I look out for. As I came, I saw the youths everywhere and you know that where there are youths, if there are no women, it is not complete. I also looked and saw that there are women everywhere.

"You know that where you have these two groups, you have won election. The elderly people are relevant but the youths and women are more relevant in politics".

He commended decampees from political parties, particularly members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who came to join force with the ruling PDP, "you know the PDP is an umbrella, we want more people. We want every part of Delta to become PDP. We have big weights from the APC.

"I want to specially greet my friend, Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya and Chief Francis Aguonigho. I welcome him (Igbuya), back to the party, we are friends and brothers and nobody can take it away. We knows the role he played when I entered as governor. All that has happened in the past, is in the past, now, he has come back to the family, we are grateful.

"All of us need to join hands to ensure that we deliver Delta State not just for winning but to deliver Delta State in full. The truth is PDP is very organized, you cannot take it from us".

While tasking them on grassroot mobilization and door-to-door campaign, he said the party must work in unity to grow from strength to strength, "We are united in Delta Central and I am happy about it. With our brothers that have come, they have come to add to our strength and I believe that in 2023, we will win in all eight local government areas in Delta Central".

He recalled that in 2015, the party won in four local governments while in 2019, "We won in six out of the eight. So, we are increasing It by two. So, this next one, we are winning eight over eight", he assured.

He charged the contestants to go about their campaigns in peace without fighting each other, "Don't do it by fighting because all of you are brothers. Let us work together with one mind and you will have reasons to be happy", he added.

Also speaking, the party Chairman in the State, Olorogun Barr. Kingsley Esiso, noted that it is the turn of Delta Central to produce the successor of Okowa.

"We also have aspirants from all parts of Delta State; just as you have the right to aspire, others also have the right to aspire," Esiso said

He equally called on the contestants to go about their campaigns peacefully.

Meanwhile, leading governorship aspirant in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, has shutdown Sapele, the administrative headquarters of Sapele local government area of Delta State.

The frontline gubernatorial hopeful with his teeming supporters stormed the Sapele stadium, venue for Delta Central Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Mega Rally, organized by leadership of the party in the district to welcome returnees and decampees.

Gbagi, a philanthropist was in Sapele, to formally welcome his brothers and friends, Olorogun Francis Aguonigho, Olorogun Solomon Edoja and Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya and their handful of supporters and to assure them of his love.

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