2019: We’ll Sack Okowa, Delta APC Chair Vows As Onowakpo Declares For House Of Reps

The Chairman of All Progressives Congress, (APC), Delta State, Prophet Jones Erue has said that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa was on his way out of Government House, vowing that the party would this time around sack him.

Erue made the assertion while receiving the former chairman, Delta State Board of Internal Revenue, (DBIR), Mr. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas who on Saturday declared to contest the House of Representatives, Isoko Federal Constituency seat in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.

Delta APC chairman, Prophet Jones Erue addressing the party faithfuls

BigPen Online reports that addressing the tumultuous crowd, Erue said that Deltans have made up their minds to send Okowa packing, adding that the governor was already jittery that he has lost it.

“Governor Okowa will be shown the way out of the government house by Deltans because the people have concluded to enthroned an APC government come 2019 in Delta state. PDP has nothing to offer Deltans any more. Deltans are tired and have rejected the PDP led government of Ifeanyi Okowa.

“With the mammoth crowd I see here today, its work over for APC in Isoko and government house Come 2019. Hon. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas has come to liberate the good people of Isoko federal constituency from the sixteen years of slavery in the hands of PDP in the federal house of representatives. We must all give our full supports to Joel Onowakpo for a total freedom”, Erue said.

The mammoth crowd at the Onowakpo declaration at Oleh

An APC chieftain in Isoko, Mr. Williams Omoviro, speaking at the event, said that the people of Ozoro kingdom are tired of the minority leader and current member representing Isoko federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Mr. Leo Ogor.

“I am an Ozoro man like Hon. Leo Ogor, I can tell you authoritatively that we are tired of Leo, he has nothing to offer for the sixteen years. Let’s all give our supports to Hon. Joel-Onowakpo Thomas for a total liberation”, Omoviro said.

Other speakers at the event reiterated that Onowakpo would have an overwhelming sleeping of the polls because the people were tired of the misrepresentation of the PDP.

In his declaration speech, Mr Onowakpo Thomas, stated that his interest for vying for house of Representatives for the Isoko federal constituency was to for total emancipation of the Isoko nation that has been enslaved for sixteen years.

Mr. Joel-Onowakpo noted that he has an abiding faith in the good people of Isoko, that they will choose right come February 2019 general election saying that God willing “we shall prevail.”

According to the former Coordinator of Federal Inland Revenue Service, (FIRS), for Edo, Delta and Rivers states: “My fellow Isoko people fear not because the head of the snake has been cut off and only struggling to survive. Give me your supports and Isoko will never remain again in this slavery and hardship. The uninformed will hardly know that I have been involved in the political engineering of this nation since the day of Action for Democracy, (AD).

“In my avowed determination to continue to contribute my quota to national development, I joined the PDP where I played active roles in building the party to enviable height culminating into my appointment as chairman of the Board of Interval Revenue, Delta State, before I finally decided to call it quits with PDP when all my entreaties against the misrule of the state and my beloved Isoko nation fell on deaf ears.

“My achievements during the time are manifest even my critics, (if any) in their quite movement will give me an A+, this performance I dare say was what President Muhammadu Buhari saw and appointed me the Revenue Coordinator for five states. Therefore the declaration I am making today as a formal member of the APC is a reaffirmation of my resolve to stand against all forms of impurity that has severally manifested by the present administration.

“I have after due consultation, decided to formally declare to the Isoko people this day, 25th August, 2018. Here and now, that I am running for the nomination as a candidate, to fly the flag of the APC in 2019 general election as member representing Isoko nation at the Federal House of Representatives, and put to an end the current drift towards the enthronement or a political dynasty which is alien to the Isoko people”.

In attendence were state APC chairman,  Prophet Jones Erue, Engr. Goodnews Agbi,  Hon Benjamin Essein, Ambrose Okuhor, Chief Lucky Okperi, Hon Ben Efekodo, Mr Williams Omoviro among other APC topshots.

Meanwhile, the Special Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on youth and community development, Mr. Lucky Arumare, and the Special Assistant to the governor on women mobilization, Mrs. Uyoyou Edhekpo, as well as Jerry Odugala were among the over five thousand PDP members who dumped the party for APC during the event.

The defection of the governor’s aides have heightened speculation that more retinues of aides who have been dissatisfied with the governor’s style of leadership, have signal to resign their appointment and join force with the APC.