Okowa Responds To INEC Snub Of PDP Guber Candidate

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Saturday,  played down the crisis in the state chapter of the party which led to the snub of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in the candidates’ list released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Friday.

Okowa spoke in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area at a mega rally where the PDP received some major defectors into its fold.

However, controversy dogged the rally following the absence of the two immediate past governors of the state, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and Chief James Ibori. Also conspicuously absent were Senator James Manager and the rival governorship candidate, Olorogun David Edevbie.

However, calming the anxiety of party stakeholders on the snub of the PDP by INEC in its candidates’ list, Governor Okowa said:

“I hear some people say that PDP is dying in Delta State. How can? Why are they deceiving themselves?”  emphasizing that “Whatever is going on in the party as at today is a normal democratic process; no cause for alarm, no cause to worry, no cause to fear.”

Welcoming a notable chieftain the All Progressive Congress, APC, in the State, Chief Fred Obe and other defectors from across the state into the PDP, he assured that the PDP would sweep the 2023 elections.

He said: “It is just the beginning of the revolution to rescue Nigeria and to return us back to the path of growth because in the last seven years, it is has not been too well with us as a nation, but we know that God has come to our rescue, it is just for the PDP to take it and to run with it and that sign has already started.

“I am sure that Saturday, you people listened and you watched and you waited for the result in Osun state. Because we went to the hinterland of the APC in Youruba land to make a statement  to God be the glory.

“They did not give PDP a chance; people thought it was something else, it was a done deal  but God showed his mighty hands and when the result started coming, it was unfortunate for the APC.”

“That is just the beginning and I must tell Nigerians who have come to realize that something has gone wrong and that we need rescue and there is only one party that can rescue Nigeria and it is the PDP. “

Earlier, the State party Chairman, Olorogun Kingsley Otuaro accused the APC divided this country along religious and ethnic lines, saying “APC is giving us a Muslim-Muslim ticket. this is very insensitive, this is very annoying.

“In the Northern part of this country, Christians constitute about 40 percent plus and for somebody to tell me there is not competent Nigeria in that part of the country is insultive to the Christian community. Our people are angry but we will not talk, we will wait until 2023 and answer them with our PVC.

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