Leo Ogor Couldn’t Get Party Flag During Campaign Flag Off Following His “Incapacitation”

The member representing Isoko Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr Leo Okuweh Ogor couldn’t move from his seat to get the PDP flag during the party campaign flag off in Oghara as he is being incapacitated by stroke.

Ogor, who was aided to the event couldn’t leave his seat to the podium when his name was called to come receive the PDP flag, sources said.

The lawmaker who stayed away from the floor of the House for four months before he returned in February 2018 is seeking a fifty term despite his deteriorating health condition.

BigPen Online gathered that at the PDP campaign flag off in Oghara, the member representing Isoko South Constituency II, Johnson Erijo was the one who was handed the PDP flag in place of Ogor who was presence at the event but could not walk the distance to the podium owing to his condition.

It was not clear if the PDP was planning to substitute Ogor for Erijo who has been goofing around since his public appearance but sources said that Erijo who was in the race during the party’s primary was asked to step down for Ogor for some undisclosed reason.

Ogor is to square up against a former Chairman of the Delta state Board of Internal Revenue, (DBIR) and immediate past cordinator Federal Inland Revenue Service incharge of Delta, Edo and Rivers states, Joel Onowakpo Thomas, an APC candidate for the constituency who is waxing stronger in the race.

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Recalls that Ogor was out of the country and legislative business in mid-October 2017 to a Switzerland hospital for partial paralysis in which he is gradually recuperating.

The lawmaker who is under the radar of the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over his constituency projects contracts scam is currently embattled by his constituents who are calling for his withdrawal from the race following his incapacitation.

Ogor have been having speech impairment stemmed from the stroke and as a result he hardly make any coherent speech but whenever he talks he makes so many mistakes that have often embarrassed his followers and campaign members.

A recent remark he made where he tried to create a dichotomy between Isoko South and North local government areas over the federal constituency seat have been greeted with much condemnation and rejection of his candidature.