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2019: Okowa Faces Political Extradition, As Ogboru, Ochei Formally Join APC

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The political terrain may not be very good for the incumbent governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa as all is set for one of his political rivals, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru and Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei have joined force with the Delta State All Progressive Congress (APC) to wrestle power from over 16 years of slavery that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led governments has placed Deltans.

Chairman of APC, Prophet Jones Ode Erue in company of state party leader, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, would on Tuesday June 28, 2016 formally present two prominent sons of Delta State and political leaders, Chief Ogboru and Rt Hon. Ochei to the National Working Committee of the party in Abuja.

Chief Ogboru, popularly referred to by his teeming supporters as “The Peoples General” contested the 2015 governorship elections as Labour Party candidate while Rt Hon. Ochei was the Accord Party (AP) flag bearer and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA) during the tenure of former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan.

A statement released in Asaba by the Chairman of Delta APC Welcoming Committee, Hon Alfred Okpowhoro Oloko said the national chairman of the party, Chief Odigie Oyegun and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) would be graciously receive the two political tacticians who recently dumped their former parties; LP and AP to join the APC in Delta State.

He said his committee was set up by the State Executive Committee (SEC) of the party to anchor the processes and arrangements to receive new entrants to the party, adding that the committee’s efforts paid off when Chief Ogboru, Rt Hon. Ochei and other key new entrants finally agreed to mutually negotiat terms, which the party national chairman and NWC would validate tomorrow, June 28 at the party national secretariat in Abuja.

Hon Oloko appealed to invited party leaders to converge at the Lobby of Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja by 12 noon from where the state delegation would proceed in a convoy to the national secretariat of the APC for the all-important event. He said a mega welcoming rally will be held in the near future to send a clear signal to the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that APC Delta is ready and willing to take over Government House Asaba in 2019.

In the light of the above, membership registration exercise for new entrants shall commence on June 30, at every ward in Delta State and shall open for a two (2) weeks period, the statement added.

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