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Elections: I Will Win – Okowa Declares After Casting His Vote

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Incumbent Governor of Delta State and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has expressed optimism that he will emerge victorious in the governorship polls.

Okowa spoke in his Unit 3 Ward 2, Omi Primary School, Owa-Alero, Ika North-East local government area of Delta State after casting his vote alongside other members of his family around 8.40am.

The governor who wore white long sleeve shirt, white trouser, white fez cap and black shoes was accompanied to the voting centre by his wife, Dame Edith and his children who voted in different polling units.

He said,  “by the grace of God, I will emerge victorious; I have partnered with Deltans, I have worked with them, and by God’s grace, a lot of them will vote for me.

“The only thing we are doing is to ensure that those who planned to use thugs to disrupt the elections will be handled by the security agencies because, aside plans to disrupt the elections, it would be a no contest situation,” Governor Okowa who was beaming with confident smile said.

“So far, the electoral process is peaceful, and we pray to God that it remains peaceful; people are coming out in their large numbers to cast their votes, a lot of votes have been cast already despite the fact that it is still very early in the day; we hope that the voting process remains peaceful across the state.”

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On his assessment of the elections, the governor said, “I believe the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has done well, everything appears to be working well, but, the day is just starting and of course, we are still perfecting our system but, the best thing is the effectiveness of the response to handle any challenge as they occur by the INEC officials.”

“INEC did well to deploy a lot of youth corpers at each polling unit, that has made the job easy as they assist themselves, we can see that there is a lot of assistance to each other,” Governor Okowa asserted, expressing hope that such would be replicated across the state”.

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