Delta 2019: Utomi, Ochei, Ojougboh Promise To Do One Term In Office, As APC Calls PDP ‘Dead Party’

Three Governorship contestants of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta state from the Delta North Senatorial District, have pledged to do one term in office for the seek of equity and justice if elected come 2019.

The aspirants, namely Prof Pat Utomi, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, in their various remark during an enlarge APC stakeholders meeting, promised to do one term and allow the governorship to go to other senatorial district of the state in 2023.

BigPen Online reports that incumbent Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa who is also from Delta North is warming up for a second term in office under the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

However, a section of the leaders of the leading opposition party in Delta North have been chopping for a credible aspirant to replace Okowa, maintaining nonetheless, that the senatorial district must be allow to complete its eight years, insisting that APC should do the remaining four term.

Meanwhile, speaking separately, leaders and elders of the party have declared that by 2019 when the party takes over the governance of the oil rich state, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would be dead and buried.

Speaking in turns at Enwreni, country home of the leader of Delta APC; Olorogun O’tega Emerhor on Sunday, they said that APC was positioning itself to take over power in Delta state.

They said that the various political support groups in the party were all working for the collective winning project of the party against insinuation that the leaders had factionalised the party.

Specifically, Chief Hyacinth Enuha maintained that there is no division in Delta APC, insisting that what is happening is a healthy competition amongst brothers.

According to the party’s leaders, those spreading rumours of division in Delta APC in Abuja are not on ground and does not mean well for the party in the state.

They maintained that APC is stronger now and ready to displace PDP in 2019 and take over government house.

“What the outsider considers as crisis in Delta APC is a healthy competition, we have the Ogboru-Omo-Agege and Emerhor-Enuha tendency in the Delta APC, but after the party primaries we all will work together to defeat PDP at the governorship election”, they said.

“This platform is what will produce the APC governor from Delta north in 2019 and will also produce APC governor form Delta central in 2023, in four years from now PDP would be dead in Delta”.

The leaders also charged all stakeholders to return home to their wards and LGAs to work out agreeable consensus executives that will be supported by all at the forthcoming congresses of the party where necessary.

“Both aspirants and stakeholders also agreed to work together in unity in order to put in place a structure that can win elections in 2019, a chieftain told BigPen Online, stressing that the meeting also agreed that “some members of the existing Excos will form the bedrock of the new executives with a focus on enhancing its strengths through the injection of new blood”.

The meeting which was attended by Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, Chief Hyacinth Enuha, Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh, Air vice Marshall Frank Ajobena (Rtd), Barr. Fred Okpohworo Olokor, NDDC EDP; Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe, had seven APC Governorship aspirants who promised to work together and ensure level plying ground for all party aspirants in order to defeat PDP come 2019 election.

The party governorship aspirants who attended the meeting were Prof. Pat Utomi, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Chief Osiobe Okotie, Dr Iyke Odikpo, Dr. Leroy Edozien and Dr. O’Diakpor Obire.

Story by Julius Eras-Olabowu