Delta State Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu on Tuesday said that the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori would further sustain the development trajectory in the state.
Speaking at a news conference in Asaba, Aniagwu said the party and the state government were grateful to Deltans for their overwhelming support which culminated in Oborevwori’s victory.
According to him, Oborevwori would continue with ongoing programmes and policy of the Okowa administration while also introducing his own programmes.
“The governor and the governor-elect and indeed the PDP are all grateful to Deltans for this show of love and for the appreciation of the sterling performance of the administration of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the street credibility of Sheriff Oborevwori and the fact that PDP is in the DNA of Deltans.
“What has happened in this election is that Deltans have been able to repel surgically the incursion into our political DNA. As an administration and the incoming administration will not take this for granted.
“We are happy that we won fair and square in all the Senatorial Districts and that we got overwhelming support of Deltans and those who live here with us in the Northern, Southern and Central Senatorial Districts.
“This victory will spur the PDP to not only sustain the development trajectory that has characterised the Okowa-led administration but to embark on a process that will indeed bring more development just like the Agenda of Sheriff Oborevwori.
“A good number of the programmes that the Okowa-led administration pursued will be sustained even as new programmes and policies will also be brought on board for the purpose of reaching out to our people,” he said.
He added the administration and the party have learnt lessons in the course of the electioneering campaign and the election proper and promised to make amends for the good of the people.
“We have learnt lessons in the course of this electioneering period. We have seen the need to further connect with our people in the rural communities, to further empower our youths, and by providing more laudable projects for the people and pursuing a more united Delta agenda.
“We congratulate our opponents for putting up a strong fight and we urge them to join hands with Sheriff Oborevwori and Monday Onyeme to leave a Delta that is more developed and united than it is now.
“We have as an administration done quite some laudable projects across the state and we can beat our chest that we will be leaving the state on May 29 far better than we met it.
“We are quite convinced that Sheriff Oborevwori is capable of sustaining these developmental trajectories and pushing forward a Delta that is far more developed in the nearest future,”
The information commissioner further said “the electioneering period have come and gone, although a victor has emerged but for us there is no vanquished.
“We believe that with the support of our brothers who contested with us we can put behind us the bitter experiences that characterised the campaign, the mudslinging that came majorly from the opposition APC and let’s move together in unity to develop our state.
“As an administration, we have forgiven those who cast aspersions at us and those who lied by way of propaganda by projecting stories that were at variance with reality.
“Those we may have also offended in the course of the campaign we also plead with them to forgive us and take it as part of the election campaign.
“We appreciate all Deltans for the way they came out to vote and we also appreciate INEC for a better outing than we had in the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.”
On the visit of the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, Chief Great Ogboru to Government House, Aniagwu described it as laudable and worthy trait from a committed democrat.
“Chief Great Ogboru is a democrat and what he demonstrated yesterday is what was expected of democrats globally.
“Yesterday, he was in the Government House because they told him Sheriff Oborevwori was in the Government House. So, he came there to congratulate him and wish him well.
“We must commend Ogboru for displaying this very rare trait of a democrat and we are also calling on Senator Ovie Omo-Agege to do same by congratulating Oborevwori so that the state can move forward,” Aniagwu added.
