Thousands of PDP supporters and members of the public were delighted with the presence of Olorogun David Edevbie at the official declaration of Senator Ighoyota Amori to contest for Senate on Saturday. Edevbie, who is garnering ever increasing acceptance across the state as the most competent and best prepared aspirant for the ticket of the PDP in the Delta 2023 Governorship election, took time off his own consultation activities to show solidarity with Senator Amori. Party faithfuls drawn from the various local governments, communities and wards of Delta Central erupted in excitement as Edevbie’s entered the event venue,…
Author: Spade Nigeria
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 2023 general elections, the Aniocha North Local Government Area (ANLG) of Delta State Chapter of the Party, have unanimously resolved not to adopt any gubernatorial or legislative aspirant, unless the leader of the Party in the State, Governor Ifeany Okowa gives a direction. The PDP leaders/stakeholders in ANLG, who added that any leader /stakeholder doing otherwise, would be doing so on his or her own without their support, disclosed this in a 10-point communique raised and duly signed by 28 leaders including some aspirants after two…
By Fred Edoreh The leadership of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide has expressed implicit confidence on Olorogun David Edevbie to bring greater development and growth to Delta State if elected as Governor. The declaration was made on Thursday when David Edevbie, the leading aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, met with elders and leaders of the supreme Urhobo cultural organisation to consult with them and seek their blessings on his governorship bid. Welcoming Edevbie to the meeting held at his country home in Okpare, President General of the Union, Olorogun Moses Taiga, said Edevbie is easily the best hand to…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday, advised citizens and communities to eschew hostilities, saying there was no alternative to peaceful living. Okowa gave the advice in Asaba while receiving the report of the Judicial Panel of Enquiry into intra-communal crisis in Evwreni in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. According to him, there is a need for communities to realise that there is no alternative to peace and any community that gets into trouble does not really look at the future of its people because as long as there is trouble in any community,…
His vision is to create a robust, knowledge-based, modern economy to elevate the standard of living and quality of life of the people. What to expect: – Full industrialisation of the state through the activation of existing but not functional industrial parks, the establishment of new industrial hubs at various other strategic points across the state, creation of strategic partnerships to reactivate the operations of Warri, Koko and Burutu ports, greater enablement for the involvement, participation and partnership of the private sector in the development of the state, increased funding and institutional support for micro, small and medium scale enterprises…
Delta State Deputy Governor and 2023 governorship aspirant, Deacon Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, has disclosed that his asset to win the 2023 governorship was God. Otuaro made the disclosure while speaking to newsmen in Asaba, the state capital. When told that other deputy governors who had aspired for the same position did not make it, Otuaro said “there is what is called jinx and jinxes are meant to be broken. ” They are jinxes because they have ingredients that constitute them, making them breakable. They are so breakable when you have God. I have God in me . God is the…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council hereby warns her members against assisting politicians in whatever guise to promote division and rancorous atmosphere as 2023 general elections are close to call. It is disheartening to note that sensational journalism is taking the centre stage with the advent of social media; a situation that has made it difficult for society to differentiate who is a journalist from the myriad of citizen journalists or online tigers as the case may be. Suffice it to say that a journalist is a trained professional with requisite qualifications to practice his…
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has proposed a seven-point agenda, which he said, would revive the country’s troubled economy and drastically reduce her dependence on Petro-Dollars. Tinubu explained that the development of a national infrastructure plan; the return of commodity exchange boards and the promotion of government-backed housing programmes were important measures that could help to reposition the national economy. The proposals are contained in a recent lecture the APC leader delivered in Lagos, where he said the decline in oil prices had revealed the travesty of the country’s extant economic model.…
The Movement for Stronger Delta, (MSD) has expressed disappointment over the position taken by a group, the Delta State Concerned PDP Leaders Forum, which was contained in its reaction to a statement by the Delta State Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza; a rejoinder to an earlier Press Release issued by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC). In the the rejoinder to the APC statement, signed by its Publicity Secretary, one “Dr”. Wilson Omene, titled: “Delta 2023: Okowa picked Sheriff Oborevwori to cover his tracks of thievery,” the PDP State Publicity rose gallantly to…
Our attention has been drawn to a Press Release titled: GROUP CAUTIONED DELTA PDP STATE PUBLICITY SECRETARY, DR. IFEANYI M. OSUOZA AND STATE PARTY CHAIRMAN, CHIEF KINGSLEY ESISO, issued by Delta State Corncened PDP Leaders Forum and Signed by Its Spokesman, Engr. Aruoture M. Efe, which referred to our penultimate Press Release titled: DELTA APC ALREADY SCARED OF FACING A NEW SHERIFF WHO MAY COME TO TOWN – PDP,” in quite uncomplimentary, uncharitable and even hostile and combative terms. We have appraised the contents of the said Press Release critically and we note the following as our response: 1. Our…