Emerhor Joins Delta Central Race, As Party Elders, Leaders Buy N7m Senate Form For Him

Leader of All Progressive Congress in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor has joined the Delta Central Senatorial race.

Emerhor is joining the race following mounting pressure from Urhobo Elders and Leaders under the All Progressive Congress (APC) platform who have taxed themselves to purchase senate form for him.

With this development, Emerhor would be rivalry Senator Ovie Omo-Agege in the forthcoming APC primaries.

Elders and Leaders of the party on Sunday stormed Emerhor country home in Enwreni to present the senate form to him.

The Urhobo Elders led by Chief Sylvester Kowho while appealing to Emerhor on behalf of other elders and leaders, said there is vacuum in the Delta Central Senatorial Seat.

“The person we have been there in the senate is a rascal and disgrace to urhobo nation; and we are saying that we want a change in the Urhobo senate position. And we want our Delta State APC Leader, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor to takeover the Delta Central Senatorial Position.

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“We want him to go there to make a change for the Urhobo nation. We beg you, Olorogun to accept our plea and we have taken the pain to buy you the senate form and we hereby present it to you. Please accept it.”

In his response, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor who was so surprised over the decision of the Urhobo APC Elders to purchase a senate form for him, thanked the elders for the gesture.

“I have heard you. I am from Delta Central and I’m the leader of APC in Delta State. Delta Central is the heart beat of APC as you know; the kind of representation Delta Central need, must be to the interest of Urhobo and Delta State. We have the current represention; but as the elders said, the present senator is not representing urhobo nation well and he is not reflecting the culture of the Urhobo people in Abuja”.

Continuing, he said, “What we hear is rascality, thuggery. We don’t hear diplomacy, we don’t hear nagotiation. He is even creating problems for President Muhammadu Buhari he claims he is supporting. But we will go there to represent urhobo, to solve problems and work with Mr. President; and do things in a way that he (Buhari) can implement his agenda; that is what we will do.

“But when they have come to ask me to run, you know it is a serious matter; they bought the form worth N7million by themselves and presented it to me.

“I have heard them and I am going to consult my immediate family and my political advisers because the form has a deadline and it is a call to duty to come and give better represention to the people of Delta Central in Abuja”, he noted.

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