Leader of the party in Delta State, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, disclosed this to State House Correspondents, after a meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
Emerhor said the President had done a lot for the people of the State and the Niger-Delta region in general, thus their overwhelming support for his second term bid.
He pointed out that the division created by parallel congresses in the state was not peculiar, but that efforts are on to resolve the issues and present a united front ahead of the polls.
“The issue of congresses and division did not happen only in Delta. It happened across the country but this is the period of reconciliation. There is a group that did not work with the majority of the people in Delta; we formed a unity group in Delta that had so many Governorship aspirants and leaders working together.
“But as you know, the Ogboru and Omo-Agege group put their own governorship aspiration ahead and decided to work separately but the move we are making is to bring everybody together, provide a level playing field so that all the Governorship aspirants will work together.
“The great objective we have is how to deliver the President in Delta State 2019. That is our priority and the ground is ripe for us to take over that State and deliver two million votes for President Buhari in 2019,” he said.
The party stalwart stressed that doing so had even become easier because of the President’s achievements in office so far, as against the alleged non-performance of the Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.
According to him: “We know that delivering the President in 2019 has become very easy in Delta State for multiple reasons. The President has performed very well, he has been very good to the South-South.
“He has reactivated the amnesty programme, the Maritime University in the Ijaw-Ishekiri side of Delta is now functioning, and he has done a lot for us in Delta. He has empowered a lot of our people in Delta.
“We have the Minister of State for Petroleum and the Minister of Transportation from South-South, the N-Power programme is working so all these have created the enabling environment for us to deliver the President in 2019.
“We are so fortunate that the Governor of Delta Sate, who is a PDP man, is not doing anything. Delta has a lot of resources and the expectation is that the State should be doing better than Edo State, for example, which is our neighbour.
“But the APC Governor in Edo is doing so well; even Willie Obiano in Anambra that doesn’t having anything is doing so well. So it’s so obvious that the finances of Delta State are not being applied and everyone in Delta is now convinced that APC must takeover because they produce performing Governors”.
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