Okowa Not Opposed To Delta Central Successor – Aniagwu

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State is not opposed to having a successor from Delta Central, the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu said on Friday.

He spoke as he equally dismissed as untenable suggestions that Governor Okowa could dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP despite the increasing foothold of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State.

Speaking in a live television interview, Aniagwu said that it was untenable to advocate for power shift on an ethnic basis, a stance that is bound to upset the quest for rotation on ethnic basis that has been the fuel of the Ijaw in Delta State.

According to Aniagwu, “the governor is not averse to power moving to the central, but he cannot just shut the Ijaws out from expressing their interest.

“Like you are aware, central has formed a group called DC-23 (Delta Central 23) they didn’t call it the Urhobo group because it’s not about an ethnic group.

“And this group has been going about pleading with other senatorial districts to allow them to have it.

“Anybody mentioning ethnic group is not clear on the political equation of the state. There are many ethnic groups in the state, so it was never an ethnic group thing.

“What we are saying, is that the PDP leaders will come together and pick a consensus from everyone that has indicated interest.

“At everything, there have been people from other senatorial districts contesting.

“For instance, remember that the man that came second to Governor Okowa in 2015 was from the central. In the same way, the present governor also contested in 2007 and was second to Uduaghan,” he said in response to issues about a successor to Governor Okowa.

Responding to a question on the prospect of Governor Okowa defecting from the PDP, Aniagwu said it was untenable given the governor’s inherent affinity to the PDP.

“It’s like football transfer window, players move from one club to the other, but there are players that will not leave their clubs.

“Okowa is a player that will not leave his team. He is not just in PDP because he wants to be in PDP, but because he believes the PDP has an ideology that will serve the interest of the people,” he said.

He dismissed insinuations that the PDP had been weakened by the defection of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi to the APC.

“We still have 25 local government chairmen and over 400 councillors and these are the people in the grassroots that will talk to the people and win their votes,” he pointed out.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the defection of Nwaoboshi to the APC raised the once farfetched subjugation of the PDP in the Senate with two of the three senators in the state being members of the APC.

Nwaoboshi remarkably represents Governor Okowa and Aniagwu in the Senate and was the governor’s successor in the Senate in 2015.

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