2023: Delta APC Vows To Unseat PDP, As Omo-Agege Formally Declares For Governorship

By Daniel Dafe

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has vowed to unseat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s tenure ends next year.

National and state leaders of the party, including stakeholders gave this charge to party faithful in their thousands that attended the declaration rally of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, at the Federal University of Petroleum Technology, (FUPRE), Ugbomro, Uvwie Council Area of the state on Thursday, where he officially indicated interest to pilot the affairs of the state as governor, come 2023.

Present at the mega political rally were the Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi represented by the Vice Chairman of the party (South South), Chief Victor Giadom, Kogi state Governor, Yahaya Bello represented by the Deputy Governor, Chief Edward Onoja, Imo state Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma represented by the deputy governor, Prof. Placid Njoku, Former General Secretary of the Nigeria’ Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and elder statesman, Chief Frank Kokori, Olorogun Ortega Emerhor and many others.

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In his remarks, Giadom said “the state is ripe to be taken,” saying that “it is time for PDP to pack their bags and leave Delta state.”

Also speaking, Onoja noted that Agege is a prominent political figure in Nigeria, stressing that APC needs a warrior like him to take over from the PDP.

On his part, Njoku commended Deltans for believing in Senator Agege.

According to him, the large turnout of people that graced the event is a sign that Agege is the next governor of the state.

Kokori who also spoke, said that it was time to liberate Delta from the shackles of PDP maladministration, adding that Delta would be liberated with Omo-Agege in the saddle as governor in 2023.

A founding leader of Delta APC and 2015 governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun Ortega Emerhor, opined that Delta is ready to be rescued by Ovie Omo-Agege.

He lamented that since 1999, Delta State has been suffering from PDP misrule, noting that God has brought Ovie Omo-Agege to rescue Deltans from the suffering.

‘Your suffering has ended because God has brought someone for us in the person of Omo-Agege’, Emerhor added.

Delivering his declaration speech, Omo-Agege assured the people that his developmental strides in nearly every local government and community in Delta Central would be wholly replicated in all parts of the state.

He said: “I thank all members of the APC national working committee and everyone present. This is a testament that we are tired of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and we are ready to Chase away PDP from Asaba. You sent me to the Senate in 2015 and I represented you well. In 2019 you supported me back to the Senate and I emerged the Deputy Senate President. I thank Mr. President Muhammadu Buhari for standing by us to be number two in the Nigeria Senate.

“First I am here to report back to you that I have fulfilled all the promises I made to you during my electioneering campaigns. Today every community in Urhobo land has solar power street lights, Additional Transformers, renovation of primary and secondary schools, additional health centers and a brand new Federal Polytechnic at Orogun, Defense State School and Nigeria Law School Campus in Delta South. We are also about to get a new Federal University of Agriculture in Aboh in Ndokwa East and many more. This is what I have done for my people.

“I therefore want to bring same to Delta North and Delta South. We will not allow Okowa to continue to marginalize us. Okowa has continued to marginalize the Ndokwa nation. Aniocha North, Oshimili North and south, nothing to show despite that it was on the backs of these LGA that he went to government house. Youths left the university for over 10years without job. Same thing is happening in Isoko Nation. Okowa wants you to drive keke while his people who he spends N2Billion naira on monthly are using the best flashy cars. It is on this ground that we say enough is enough for PDP.”

“Hence I want to leave my comfort zone which is Delta Central Senatorial District to develop the entire Delta state.

“Today, I am offering myself to serve the entire state,” because according to him, several part of the state are grossly marginalised and underdeveloped by the Governor Okowa-led PDP government.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the party in the state, Elder Omene Sobotie, said that the success of the rally has proven PDP wrong that believe that there is no opposition in the state and say that APC is a dead party.