Delta 2023: Isoko North Pastors Backs SDP, The Church is Fully with Gbagi, Insist that Things Must Change

Delta 2023: Isoko North Pastors Backs SDP, The Church is Fully with Gbagi, Insist that Things Must Change. 

By Ezekiel Kagbala 

Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, religious leaders in Isoko North have endorsed the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP  Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi for Governor.

They made the endorsement at 

Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of the state during a meeting with Isoko North Pastors on Thursday, January 19th, 2023.

The clergymen started the meeting with an exhortation by RT Rev John Usiwoma Aruakpor after the opening prayers were said by Archbishop Barr. Bgibright Adaigho.

During the exhortation, RT Rev John Usiwoma Aruakpor insisted that the church must Wakeup and take its rightful place in politics, adding that the church should rise and shine as light. 

He argued that the church is a factor and would not back down on the issue of governance in the nation and Delta State in particular.

According to him, "What we are passing through as a nation shows that we failed to take our place as light in the nation, the Church suppose to rise, not folding their hands, this time, things must change, there is so much darkness in Delta State, the Nigeria case is another matter".

The gathering also featured Pastors from all parts of Isoko extraction under the umbrella body of the Isoko church leaders forum. 

Gbagi who appreciated the religious leaders noted that there is grave danger and we are being deceived, everything we do revolves around politics, and the church has a place in politics.

"We are in a terrible economic situation because everything that makes lives meaningful has gone beyond the reach of the common man. 

Delta state has spent billions to buy rice, yet Isoko land alone can produce one hundred billion Naira every year from rice production. 

If properly harnessed we can export rice because of the quality of rice we have here, i will make Isoko to become the food basket of the nation once i take over as governor come 2023.

"You cannot do the same thing all the time and get different results,

Isoko can become the basket of the nation, I will work with the church to industrialize your state".

"Just as I created 13 universities when I was a minister of state for education. I will pay the youths thirty thousand nairas monthly, after their registration in a database that I will create. It would be easy because all the money that has been stolen will be there for us to Invest".