By Eseoghene Emuke
Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Sunday, said the much-anticipated local government election would not hold January next year as being speculated.
The governor also counseled aspirants jostling for political offices at the council level not to waste their money campaign as they will have to wait longer.
The tenure of the current council chairmen and councillors is expected to elapse in January 2021 thus some aspirants have started campaigns and consultations.
But Okowa speaking at a thanksgiving service organised by the re-elected state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olorogun Kingsley Esiso, at Sapele on Sunday, cautioned the aspirants to ‘slow down’ with their campaigns.
The governor said, “Delta Council election is not coming up in January, so please you must all slow down and not waste your money before time.”
Speaking further, Okowa urged Nigerians to support PDP to dislodged APC, which he claimed Nigerians are not pleased with their performance.
He said PDP would do everything possible with the support of the people of Nigeria to win the 2023 presidential election and restore good governance, including infrastructural development in the country.
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While congratulating Esiso for his re-emergence as the Chairman of PDP in the state, the governor urged him to brace up for future challenges, stating that he should be prayerful for God to enable him surmount challenges associated with such position.
“We have come here to give thanks to God because whatever we achieve in life is not the work of any man.
“Man can try but whatever we do is by the will of God that we triumph and it is only normal that we return all the glory to God.
“Chairman you must learn to work with everybody in the state irrespective of their tribe because everyone matters in building a political party.
“I can attest that the Esiso-led executive has brought sanity into the party because before the last general elections, we assured our members in the state that we will organise free, fair and credible primaries for all aspirants.
“At the end of all the primaries, our party members realised that we meant business when we said we will organise credible primaries for aspirants because some aspirants close to me lost while some that are not close to me also won.
“Once we are able to recognise that everybody matters in the party it becomes very easy to control the party and I am convinced that, this is the stand of the Esiso-led executive,” Okowa stated.
Earlier, Esiso had in an address expressed delight at the grand reception in his honour.
“I am not a perfect person and in the course of my duty I may have offended some people, please forgive me. Let me thank all the leaders in Sapele PDP for their support and i believe that in politics everyone has his own day,” Esiso said.
