BY AUSTIN OYIBODE, ASABA
Delta State commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, has said that the emergence of an Anioma son as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party for the governorship election in Delta was a long time commitment of the state government since the inception of the Uduaghan administration in the state.
Ogeah said ‘from day one, this government was committed to the emergence of an Anioma candidate for the PDP. What happened prior to the primaries was politics. The one that emerged, PDP knew he would emerge as the party’s candidate”.
He said though Okowa is an Anioma indigene, it was not only the Anioma delegates that voted for him during the PDP primaries that held at the premises of the Event Centre on December 8, 2014.
Hence, he said as Uduaghan pursued Delta Beyond Oil agenda, Okowa would pursue a Delta Beyond Ethnicity, stating that anybody fighting him or intending to fight him might be fighting God.
As an attestation to the unity of all the governorship aspirants to the actualization of a PDP government, Ogeah said all Deltans that contested the primaries are now part of the PDP campaign in the state.
He, however, noted that those aggrieved ones who moved to other parties to contest the election were exercising their human rights.
Answering a question on whether Nigeria was really practicing true democracy, Ogeah said democracy was a journey and not a destination, but added that Nigeria cannot take democracy from the United States and the United Kingdom and practice hook, line and sinker.
He said as a nation, Nigeria must grow its democracy but noted that the strength of any democracy was the constitutional provision of the country concerned.
However, he said there were issues with the Nigerian democracy but added that “we should pray for Nigeria as there is problem everywhere”.
