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