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2019 elections: Governor Okowa urges Nigerians to vote for only PDP candidates

- Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has urged Nigerians to vote for only PDP candidates in the 2019 general elections

- According to Governor Okowa, the PDP has the blueprint to positively, transform the country

- The Delta state governor said the PDP parades capable individuals, and qualified candidates

Delta state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has urged Nigerians to cast their votes for only candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that the PDP has the blueprint to positively, transform the country.

The governor made the call on Wednesday, January 23, during the campaign rallies of the PDP at Bomadi and Patani, Bomadi and Patani local government areas of Delta state respectively.

According to the governor, “holding political office in trust for the people requires qualified, capable individuals, and the PDP parades such qualified candidates; political positions is not for all comers.”

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His continued: “While we engage in issue based campaigns, we should know that my opponent in the governorship race is a serial contestant and a serial loser; he is a bad product that is difficult to market.

“You, the electorate should elect capable and experienced hands; governorship position is not a training ground, those who wants to contest against me should first of all, hold other political positions.”

The governor who was accompanied to the rallies by his wife, Dame Edith and his deputy, Barrister Kingsley Otuaro, thanked Deltans for their support.

He said: “We have a partnership that works, a genuine partnership between government and the governed, it has made the people to freely tell what government what they need, how they feel and we, as a government, has responded.

“We have empowerment programmes, we have constructed roads and because, you call me the road master, we will construct more roads in the next four years, we have built schools, we are working with our people and the smiling faces I see here, the crowd shows that our people are happy and we are happy when we know that our people are happy.”

He listed some of the projects his administration has executed and is executing in the area, emphasising, “vote for all the candidates of the PDP, we are sure of victory, because we have handed over the campaign to God, no one can stop us.”

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Governor Okowa recently stated that his administration does not discriminate in dishing out democratic dividends to Deltans because he sees the people as belonging to one united family.

He made the comment on Tuesday, January 22, at Otor-Udu, Udu local government area of the state during the PDP campaign rally in the area.

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