Delta 2023: Okowa Didn’t Ask His Deputy To Step Down His Guber Ambition – Group

BIGPENNGR reports that the denial followed story making the round in some online media purporting that Governor Okowa had picked his successor and had asked Otuaro to stop campaigning for his guber ambition.

GDP, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Lawson Awipi, on Wednesday, said the story was a fake news manufactured by “stomach hustlers in politics”.

The peddler of the purported ‘fake news’, the group said, is a known ‘glorified fake news courier’.

‘This fake news courier is just a self-professed investigative journalist who is being used as a pawn in the political chessboard by some misfortune political hustlers’

The group said, ‘the proponent and other of his irks have been hired by these misfortune politicians in the game to propagate false information in the State in order to score cheap political points.

‘The race is too hot for them; thus, they have to resort to emotional blackmails in order to keep their social media governorship ambitions afloat.

‘We are not surprised because not only Otuaro is the victim of these fake news binge. Nearly all the leading aspirants in the PDP guber primary in Delta State have become victims of media assault, stories cooked up by these pawns who are hired to do the hatchet job.

‘Kingsley Burutu Otuaro is not only in the race but is the aspirant to beat. God willing, Deltans will give him the Party ticket to contest the general elections in 2023.

‘As a matter of fact, the Deputy Governor has just opened his state-of-the-art and ultra- modern campaign office in Asaba the State capital on the 15th of March, 2022. Party faithful from all the 25 LGAs were mobilized with supporters within and outside the State were also invited to grace the occasion.

‘The event in itself which is first in the history of this State was a fanfare of conviviality as Deltans are too eager to show their unflinching supports for their preferred governorship aspirant in the 2023 guber race.

‘We make bold to say that Governor Okowa has not endorsed any aspirant. The Governor in his divine wisdom and innate leadership charisma has has made himself a father to all aspirants in the race.

‘He has assured Deltans in many occasions that the race is going to be free and fair and only God’s anointed will fly the PDP flag in the State. Just as the Governor has always told Deltans that not him but God Almighty knows who will succeed him, we want Deltans to always note that it’s only God and not some fake news peddlers in the social media that gives power.

‘The general public is hereby enjoined to disregard the fake news about Otuaro being asked to stop campaigning or stepdown. The Deputy Governor is in the race to the end and by God’s grace, will fly the Party ticket through the magnanimity of Deltans. We shall all celebrate the next level of good governance, by continuing the sterling legacies of Governor Okowa’s Stronger Delta mantra’.