By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye
Mammoth crowd of All Progressive Congress APC, supporters on Saturday, besieged the Warri township stadium to receive the campaign train of the presidential candidate of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and APC governorship candidate for Delta state, Ovie Omo-Agege.
Tinubu and his vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, and other notable APC leaders including the former national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomole, President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan, Wife of Tinubu, Senator Oluremi Tinubu and others on their arrival, were received with a thunderous ovation from party faithful and supporters.
Addressing party faithful and supporters during the of flag off of APC, Tinubu accused Tue PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and all members of the party as people without shame. He said, the PDP while in government at the centre, sold out nearly all of the nation’s assets to their proxies.
Tinubu in his speech asked, where the PDP kept all the money realised from the sales of all national assets, adding that in the past 23 years of PDP in power in Delta State, nothing has been seen on ground.
In his words; “Warri is going down, but PDP don’t know the way for development, they have no brains and don’t have the vision and know the road to prosperity. We know the way, go to Lagos and see development and progress.
“This people, year after year, election after election they lie to you. They have no shame. PDP has no shame. When Atiku was there he was fighting his boss in the public. They were telling us how they used public money to buy cars for their girlfriends. They have no shame.
“But I will fulfill all my promises. I appreciate your show of love for me. It is an indication of your desire for change.”
On the governorship candidate for Delta State, Tinubu expressed his optimism that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege will be the next governor that will develop Delta State.
“Ovie Omo-Agege as governor of Delta State will work with me and bring hope and progress to the State. Your sea ports, your steel industry and many areas of development are not for sale but for development.” Tinubu said.
On his part, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege had assured that when elected as governor, he would work with Tinubu as President to ensure that DSC is reactivated, Warri port is functional, the Maritime University in Okorenkoko start working, as well as the EPZ at Ogidigben to kick off.
He told Tinubu that the people of Delta State are Christians who do not act in treachery but lamented that recently Governor Okowa acted as if he is not a Deltan.
“We are Christians and we do not betray but the latest betrayer of the South happened to be the governor of Delta State. He is replica of Judas Iscariot and if he does not want to commit suicide like Judas Iscariot, he should immediately step down from that ill-fated vice presidential race he is pursuing.
” Our people are very angry, they want development but rather than develop the State, all we hear are loans and more loans. All Deltans and those unborn are now indebted as a result of Okowa’s recklessness. To add insult to injury, he has brought a clone and Deltans have rejected Okowa and his clone. We don’t want a motorpark Chairman to be our governor even though that is what Okowa wants.
Also speaking, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole reiterated Governor Nyesom Wike disclosure that President Muhammadu Buhari released a huge sum of unpaid funds accruing from 13 per cent oil derivation to oli producing states including Delta State and that the development going on in Rivers State were funded by the money.
Oshiomhole charged Deltans to ask Okowa where their share of the money was.
“Go and ask Okowa where is our N250 billion, Edo State got N100 billion, where is our N250 billion from 13 per cent oil derivation? You didn’t tell us the federal government gave you such money, now where is the money? Did you use it for your vice presidential election race?”
Highlights of the event was the handing of flags to Tinubu and Ovie Omo-Agege as presidential and Delta State governorship APC candidates.
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