Delta 2023: PDP will no longer smile with ‘fantastic’ votes from Delta South again -Orubebe

…Says Omo-Agege coming with a new Delta of equity, unity, love

The Director-General of Delta State APC Campaign Organization, Elder Godsday Orubebe has vowed that PDP will no longer have a smooth sail with the harvest of bogus votes it used to harvest in Delta South in past elections in the State.

Orubebe who himself hails from Burutu Local Government Area of Delta South Senatorial District, stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in his country home, Gbobagbene, over the weekend.

The former Minister of Special Duties and Niger Delta Affairs under former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, also assured that the APC Governorship candidate for the 2023 election, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, is coming to usher in a new Delta whose hallmark will be equity, unity and love where there will be no discrimination of any sort.

Reminiscing on the activities of the ruling party, PDP in the past, Orubebe who was once a Councillor and chairman of Burutu Local Government Area, noted that the party had always had a field day in elections and harvested more than 50% of total votes in the State from Delta South.

He said that with the enthusiasm of Deltans yearning for a change from the more than two decades of decay and lack of development, it will no longer be business as usual for the PDP in the 2023 election, especially in Delta South.

“You know, PDP in those days used to have what is called fantastic election figures from Delta South. I remember, if I go by 2011 election result, about 54% of the votes came from Delta South. Delta North and Delta Central, their votes put together, were not up to Delta South.

“So, with the new way of thinking, the enthusiasm of the people and the desire of the people to have a new Delta State, PDP will not smile with those figures again. This time around, it is APC that will smile with those figures”, Orubebe said.

On what Deltans are to expect from the APC government of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Orubebe noted that Delta State has for too long, lost its pride of place as one of the first three highly developed and industrialized States in the country.

According to him, a time in this country when Delta State occupied a premier position in industrialization, commerce, education, agriculture, and sports, amongst others.

Today, he lamented, all the companies had left, none of the four seaports is functioning, all the agro-allied companies are dead and infrastructure such as roads, etc non-existent.

The former Minister stated that he has travelled all over the world and has discovered there are a lot of things to be done to usher in a new Delta State, adding that Senator Omo-Agege has the blueprint to transform the State into an El-dorado.

He stated that he had carefully under-studied the natural endowments of the State and had found out that each of the 25 Local Government Council Areas possesses what it takes to become great.

“Growing up, I lived to see Bendel State as the number one State in so many things. When Delta State was carved out, we continued with that.

“Warri is the major commercial city we have in Delta State. And if we have a sensitive government, Warri can be competing with Lagos State because most of the things you can’t find in Lagos can be found in Warri.

“Delta State is the only State where you have about five seaports. Today, all the oil companies have gone out of Warri. Today, there are no roads in Warri.

“I went to Asaba and I saw our State capital as a city that is in the slum. Asaba does not look like a State capital that has earned trillions of naira in federal allocations.

“In 2015, I came across a man who has courage, a man who has a kind of vision I had for Delta State, a man who has a human heart and who feels for the poor, a man who thinks about the aged and the younger generation, a man who thinks about the women.

“And I said this is the man I should follow. What I could not do in 2015, I’ve found a man that can do it, and even do it better than me. I’ll follow him. That’s why today, I’m championing the team of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Obarisi of Urhobo land, to become the next governor of Delta State.

“It is my prayer that God will see us through so that we can have a new Delta State. Let us do things differently. We have the resources to develop this State but we have not gone anywhere”, Orubebe said.

Stressing more on the level of decay in infrastructure in the State, the Delta APC Campaign DG, recalled that the two major roads in the State, Ughelli-Asaba road and the Effurun-Eku-Agbor road have been rendered non-motorable, with the Okowa-led government, unwilling to fix them.

He noted that the only two existing flyover bridges in the State are incapable of carrying heavy-duty vehicles except light vehicles, just as he reminded Deltans that it was time to wake up to the reality of the dire situation of the State.

“Now, we have two economic roads in this State. The one from Ughelli through Kwale to Asaba and the other from Warri through Eku to Agbor. Why can the State government fix these roads after eight years?

“There are over 12 standard flyover bridges in Port Harcourt that address traffic problems, but today, the only two flyover bridges we have in Delta State cannot carry heavy-duty vehicles. Only light vehicles pass through them.

“Deltans must wake up to this reality. Delta can do much better. We used to be number one in sports, but today we are borrowing people from other States to help us. For God’s sake, why should that happen in this State?”, Orubebe regretted.

He, therefore, called in Deltans to be ready to usher in a brand new Delta State under the capable leadership of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege come 2023, adding that it was time for Deltans to unite and do things differently.

“Deltans, today, let us unite to do things differently. We have a man who will lead us to a new dawn. Omo-Agege will lead us to a new dawn.

“Omo-Agege will open the doors for the kind of development that we need in this State. In 2005, I went round the 25 LGAs and I saw that in each of the Council areas, we can do something. We can embark on different types of development programmes that can take our youths, the young boys and girls, from the street. The interest of the government is to ensure that our youths are gainfully employed.

“Now Warri and Asaba have become ‘Keke’ riders capitals Nigeria. How? But there is good news coming for Deltans. Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is coming and we are all working with him to change the tide in this State for the new Delta of our dream*, he added.

Orubebe further clarified that he keyed into the EDGE Agenda of Senator Omo-Agege for governor in the State not because he will expect any form of political appointment, but rather because his interest is for good governance, adding that he has come to help the government that will take the state to the number one position in terms of development.

“For me, I can never be Secretary to the State government, I can never be Commissioner, I can never be chairman of anything more. My interest is good governance in Delta State.

“I want to help to see that we have a government that is coming to do things differently to take us to the number one position Delta State ought to be. Thereafter, we can always support from the outside to see that the right thing is done so that we can move forward.

“And by the grace of God, a new Delta is coming on board on the 29th of May, 2023. A new Delta State where things will be done with morality, where things will be done with the fear of God,

“Deltans should expect a new Delta State where things will be done with the love for the people, where things will be equitably distributed without discrimination among Delta North, Delta Central and Delta South.

“We are coming to have a new Delta of our dream, Delta of unity, Delta of equity and Delta of love. And together, we will take Delta State to the next level”, Orubebe concluded.