Deltans Have Shown Willingness To Change The Narratives – Delta YPP Guber Candidate, Ofehe

The governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Congress (YPP) in Delta state, Comrade Sunny Ofehe, has said that the people of Delta state have shown their willingness to change the narratives with the outcome of the presidential and national assembly elections in the state.

Ofehe spoke during a Civil Society Organisations townhall meeting and engagement in Asaba, the state capital on Tuesday.

The frontline governorship hopeful said that Deltans, irrespective of political party have made a strong statement through the votes garnered by one of the political parties taunted as having ‘no structure’, that the will of the people is supreme.

According to him, the presidential election results, was a clear indication that the people have lost confidence in the ruling party, saying that his candidacy under the YPP is what Deltans need in the March 11 governorship election.

“2023 governorship election should not be business as usual.” I don’t have the money that the APC and PDP have to throw around, but what I have money cannot buy,” he said, adding that the exposure, credibility, and international connections that he possesses have positioned him as the one to take Delta out of the woods and open her up as an investment destination for the country.

“It is not by accident that we have been geographically positioned to be the gateway of the South-South region and South-East region of this county. what it means is that you can never access the South-East region without going through our great state but today we’re not using the economic benefit that comes with that.

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“We’re a state with the highest number of seaports in this country, but four of these seaports are under-functional.”

He said that in other climes, civil society organisation helped the government of the day to thrive, but here in Nigeria, they are relegated to the background despite the fact that they are closer to the people.

The Netherlands-based environmental activist, said that when elected, he would make the civil society the fourth arm of government so as to bring the dividends of democracy very close to the people.

He said that in his first one year as governor, he would attract $26 billion to the state in foreign direct investment to revamp it ailing industries in the state and create jobs for her teeming youths.

“You will agree with me that the current administration has borrowed and borrowed and mortgaged the future of your children, and today, we’re ranked as the second-highest debt-profile state, and that is why we must never trust them with our votes again,” he said.

He urged the people to come out en masse and vote out the PDP and APC by voting for the YPP in the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections to change the fortunes of the state positively.

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“Today, positive change is coming. The wind is blowing and sweeping across, and it must get to Delta. There is a saying that says evil triumphs when good men refuse to do anything about it, and Martin Luther King says no force in the world can stop an idea whose time has come.

“Today, the time has come for you to scrutinize who you cast your vote for. Today, I feel strongly that everyone here is ready for a change. The last presidential election has clearly shown that the pendulum is swinging towards the progressives, and we’re the progressives.

“For the first time in the history of our democracy, we have seen old women stand up and say we will no longer vote along party lines, but I am voting for a candidate who has the capacity to transform our country and put food on our table.”

“My candidacy will not only put food on your table, but my candidacy will restore Delta State and develop it to an enviable height.” Today, we are proud to be the country’s largest crude oil producer. A few weeks ago, multinational oil companies made a whopping $260 billion from the sale of crude oil. Shell itself made $38 billion, the most even in its 101 years of exploration. My state, which is the largest producer of crude oil, does not make a cent of that. Today, we have 165 km of coastline that we are not taking advantage of, and not utilizing to the benefit of our people.

“We don’t have a reason to have poor people in Delta State; we don’t have a reason to produce people who will be struggling to eat or children struggling to go to school; we have no reason for parents to struggle to send their children to school only for them to come back and become liabilities to them.”

Today, society is bringing in young people who have no future; we now hear of “yahoo boys,” and we now hear of people who use people for rituals because the government has failed us and society has failed us.

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“Even the church is taking advantage of our vulnerable people, extorting them and taking money from all of us in the name that we seeking for a messiah, I want to tell you this afternoon, in front of you, you have a young man who is coming with experience to revamp the economic of our great state and reposition her for greatness”.