2019: Otuaro Salutes Delta Women Who Worked For Okowa/Otuaro Joint Ticket In 2015

As  the race for the 2019 governorship election gathers momentum, the Delta state Deputy Governor, Kingsley Burutu Otuaro has appreciated the massive support women in the state gave the Okowa/Otuaro joint ticket in 2015.

Specifically, Otuaro who attributed the victory recorded in the polls to women, thanked the various women groups for standing firm with the governor all through the campaign period to the electoral victory and achievements of the Okowa-led Delta State Government since inception.

The Deputy governor spoke at the Delta South mega rally on Thursday for Okowa/Otuaro 2019 governorship election under the auspices of Delta Smart Ladies with Queen Betty Efekhoda chairing the steering committee.

Otuaro, who said that Governor Okowa is still counting on them to win his second term ambition, prayed Almighty God, who sees their fine works, to bless them.

“I am here in the stead of Governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa who appreciates your effort. I want to thank you for your wonderful support. I recall that in 2015, you women crisscrossed the nooks and crannies of Delta State just to ensure that the Okowa/Otuaro gubernatorial ticket succeeds. You will go with Almighty God’s blessings and continue to enjoy our logistics support”, Otuaro said.

Earlier, National Coordinator of Delta Smart Ladies, Chief (Mrs.) Patience Nkem Okwuofo said the group’s support for Okowa/Otuaro is predicated on the sterling and glaring performance of the present Delta State administration.

Holding out Otuaro as a humble  deputy, she said Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, has touched lives of Deltans including youths, women, widows, adding that Okowa dared the seemingly impossible by bringing Africa to Delta State in the Senior Athletics Competition tagged Asaba 2018 after completing the Stephen Keshi Stadium.

Okwuofo said the group was increasingly successful in its ongoing massive mobilization of women across the state, even as she declared the first Monday of every month, to the election, a women fasting day for God Almighty’s power to dislodging every barrier towards successfully returning Okowa/Otuaro back to Government House in 2019.

The rally was attended by women from all the local government areas of Delta South namely Bomadi, Burutu, Patani, Isoko North, Isoko South, Warri South, Warri North and Warri South-West, all of who danced past to the accompaniment of music, in their colours.

Also present were the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman of Delta South Senatorial District, Chief Emmanuel Amgbaduba, the Political Adviser to Governor Okowa, Chief Festus Ochonogor, Omimi Esquire, Dr. Joseph Otumara, Chairman of Warri South LGA, Hon. Mike Tidi, Emomotimi Guwor, Warri South-West Aspirant to Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Vero Tangbowei, Madam Rose Tulu amongst hundreds of others.

Story was contributed by Bulou Kosin