DELTA 2015: GBAGI SPITS FIRE, VOWS TO FIGHT AGAINST PDP ZONING

PEEVED by the rumour that the Delta State 2015 Governorship has been zoned to Delta North, former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has said he would fight against zoning, insisting that the State Governorship has never been zoned.

Gbagi who spoke when he paid a consultative visit to the State leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Asaba, said the governorship position has always been contested for by aspirants from the three senatorial districts from inception of democracy till date.

He said; “no matter what it takes, I will govern Delta,” insisting that he was the most qualified amongst those vying for the gubernatorial seat in 2015. He held he has watched his hands very clean as a politician, adding that he has more stake than other governorship aspirants in the State.

Gbagi said; “Nobody has ever come to say I have stolen or that I have taken anybody’s wife. I will not take Delta State money,” soliciting the support of the party’s leadership and promised to use his wealth of experience and contact all over the world to transform the State.

Responding on behalf of the State PDP executive, Chief Solomon Ogba assured that that the party had agreed that delegates’ votes would count at the party’s primary and said: “the party has not taken any position on zoning and that is why we are receiving all aspirants. It is a contest and whoever emerges with the highest votes will be the party’s candidate.

“My appeal is that when someone emerges as the party’s candidate, other aspirants should support him. Only one person can be governor at a time and it is only God that can decide that. Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan clarified a lot of issues when he said he does not know who will succeed him”

By Festus Ahon

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SHOCKING REVELATION: Ogboru Received, Ran Away With N42m Election Money –Clark

Left-Ogboru, Rigth is Chief E.K Clark

Elder statesman and foremost Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark has made startling revelations on how the governorship candidate of the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) in the 2007 and 2011 general elections in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru ran away with N42m contributed for him to pursue his guber aspiration.

Clark, who spoke when an aspirant for the 2015 governorship race, Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege visited his Kiagbodo country home in continuation of his consultation with stakeholders on his gubernatorial quest.

Recalling the political upheavals that engulfed the State in the aftermath of the emergence of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the State Governor in 2007, he said: “For sometime Delta was divided, there was no peace. I now met people like Great Ogboru to come and intervene but for reasons best known to them they lost. One has to be sincere. In this house, I collected money from people, I gave Ogboru on this floor N42 million I collected from people for him. What did he do with the money? When he failed, he ran away with the money to Lagos.

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DELTA 2015: Isokos Set For War With Anioma Over PDP Chairman’s Outburst

Members of Delta State Youth Forum for Good Governance

Politics has really started in earnest in Delta. A group of political thugs that goes by the name Delta State Youth Forum for Good Governance today briefed the press in Asaba, with a demand that the state PDP Chairman,Chief Peter Nwaoboshi should apologise to the SSG, Ovouzuorie Macaulay for telling him to shut up on account of his interview, debunking any power shift arrangement in PDP. The group even threatened to make the state primaries a crisis that the state can't manage, accusing Nwaoboshi of already taking sides with his Anioma Governorship aspirants.

According to the President of the group, Comrade Prince Kpokpogri "May we emphasize that the campaign offices of Delta North Governorship aspirants in Isoko North and South LGAs would be closed and none of the aspirants will be allowed to campaign in the area if the Chairman fails to tender an apology." They called on the Nat. Chairman of PDP to as a matter of urgency ask Barr. Nwaoboshi to resign on the grounds that he couldn't Play the fatherly role required of him as a State PDP Chairman.

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