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| Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. |
DELTA PDP DESCRIBES
TRIBUNAL VICTORY AS REAFFIRMATION OF OKOWA'S CAPACITY BY DELTANS.
......URGES OGBORU TO
APPLY PETITION FUNDS IN MORE FRUITFUL VENTURES FOR HIS PEOPLE
The Delta State
Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed the victory of Delta
State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa at the Governorship Election Petitions
Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, the State capital, as an expected and well deserved
affirmation of the desires of Deltans to place their trust and confidence in
Governor Okowa and the PDP during the March 9 governorship election in the
State.
Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza,
State Publicity Secretary, Delta State PDP, made this disclosure in a press
statement issued after the tribunal declared Senator Ifeanyi Okowa victorious
in the March 9 governorship polls in the State and further called on the
petitioner, Chief Great Ogboru of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to stop
wasting resources that can better be channelled to impacting positively on the
lives of the people in his constituency, instead of selfishly pursuing a
personal, vaunting ambition to satisfy his bloated ego, that has sadly become a
periodic distraction over the last 16 years.
"The Delta State
PDP is quite elated with the reaffirmation of the victory of His Excellency,
Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the Executive Governor of Delta State, as the
winner of the March 9, 2019 Delta State governorship election, by the Election
petitions tribunal, sitting in Asaba, the State capital.
We were not
particularly surprised by this outcome and had been fully expectant of the
judicial triumph, given the very clear and incontrovertible fact that we
campaigned vigorously and comprehensively across the entire stretch of Delta
State and ensured that our message to Deltans was issues-based and concentrated
on how to consolidate on the excellent achievements of our Governor, Senator
Ifeanyi Okowa, the Ekwueme of the universe, after a first term of outstanding
accomplishments, in virtually every sector of our economy and in our collective
existence as a united, peaceful one Delta.
The Tribunal victory
speaks for itself and we must commend our judiciary for delivering a sound,
well articulated and factual ruling which addressed all the fundamental issues
in the petition, rather than the fudged, emotional, propaganda tainted judgement
the APC and Chief Ogboru were demanding, with all manner of veiled,
intimidating and actual threats.
The judgement was
fair, transparent, painstaking and a demonstration of judicial erudition.
The burden of the petitioners to prove their allegations was squarely on their
shoulders and this is a fact and point of law that has never shifted and which
they failed to prove with convincing evidence. The election was conducted
substantially in compliance with the electoral Act, according to the Tribunal.
Of course, we expect
the APC and their candidate to start crying wolf and bellyaching all over the
place, in their usual spurious huffing and puffing about their displeasure with
the judgement, but let us quickly assure them now, that we do not wish to and
will not join issues with them, except at the appropriate legal platforms, if
they opt to embrace that unproductive channel.
However, in the spirit
of one Delta we hereby call on Chief Great Ogboru to sensibly ignore those
charging him to appeal the tribunal judgement as even he knows deep down in his
heart that neither he nor his party did not do enough to even present evidences
to support the challenge they were putting up against their resounding defeat
in the March 9, Governorship election. The truth of the matter, as validated by
the Tribunal, is that elections are won on the ground and not by imagination,
propaganda or manipulation and intimidation.
We wish to express our
unreserved gratitude to Deltans in the three Senatorial zones and also the
diaspora, for their resolute, unflinching support, which ensured our
overwhelming electoral victory and translated into this judicial triumph. Our
campaign was robust and our outreach was all encompassing which translated into
the landslide support we got at the grassroots.
Our victory was very
legitimate with the massive turn out of our people to exercise their franchise,
in spite of all the devious and dubious tactics deployed to intimidate them
before election day and the outcome couldn’t have been different from the
monumental victory we secured.
It is not in our
nature to discourage the opposition from embarking on whatever course of action
they choose, but we are aware that Deltans have consistently upheld the
unanimous opinion, since after the election, that the decision of APC and Chief
Ogboru to go to the tribunal was absolutely unnecessary, given the fact that
they, as Deltans, were the ones who voluntarily and in the spirit of unity and
equity, freely gave their thousands of votes to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the
PDP, in order to consolidate on what has been achieved and deliver more
enduring dividends of democracy to the people.
We therefore call on
Chief Great Ogboru to, as a matter of social responsibility to his people and
as a patriotic Deltan who claims to have the love and interest of his people at
heart, to join hands with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the majority of Deltans
who gave him their mandate on March 9, 2019, in the collective effort to build
a stronger, greater Delta.
Long Live PDP
God Bless Delta State.
PDP! Power to the
People.
Dr. Ifeanyi M. Osuoza
State Publicity
Secretary
PDP, Delta State.
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