President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection bid received a boost Thursday from members of the Delta state All Progressive Congress (APC) as the group vowed to mobilize over two million votes for him, ahead of the 2019 elections
Otega Imero who led the group to the Presidential Villa, disclosed this to State House Correspondents, after a meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, adding that Buhari deserved Delta votes because of the infrastructural projects he has attracted to the South South region.
“in 2015, we had President Jonathan who is from the south south, that created an emotional issue but w have seen now that even when Jonathan was in power, he did not do for Delta what President Buhari has done for us.
The group also cited the Ogoni Clean up exercise that is going on there is one of the major thing we can count on.
The group noted that the “East west road is being completely rehabilitated and that did not happen when one of our own son was the President. So, we are very very confident that the south south this time around wants to belong to the center and that is why we are going to be able to deliver the President there.”
He said the President has done a lot for the people of the State and the Niger-Delta region in general, which has warranted overwhelming support for his second term bid.
He said: “We know that delivering the President in 2019 has become very easy in Delta State for multiple reasons. The President has performed very well, he has been very good to the South-South, he has reactivated the amnesty programme, the Maritime University in the Ijaw-Ishekiri side of Delta is now functioning, and he has done a lot for us in Delta. He has empowered a lot of our people in Delta.
“We have the Minister of State Petroleum and the Minister of Transportation from South-South, the N-Power programme is working so all these have created the enabling environment for us to deliver the President in 2019.”
The APC stalwart, who expressed optimism that the APC can take over the reins of leadership in Delta State form the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, noted that the current Governor off the State has not done enough thus, clearing the coast for the APC to take over.
“Let me tell you, we are so fortunate that the Governor of Delta Sate, who is a PDP man, is not doing anything. Delta has a lot of resources and the expectation is that the State should be doing better than Edo State for example, which is our neighbour but the APC Governor in Edo is doing so well; even Willie Obiano in Anambra that doesn’t having anything is doing so well. So it’s so obvious that the finances of Delta State are not being applied and everyone in Delta is now convinced that APC must takeover because they produce performing Governors,”Imoro stated.
Commenting on alleged divisions in the APC in Delta State, he said the issue was not peculiar to Delta State.
“The issue of congresses and division did not happen only in Delta. It happened across the country but this is the period of reconciliation. There is a group that did not work with the majority of the people in Delta; we formed a unity group in Delta that had so many Governorship aspirants and leaders working together.
“But the great objective we have is how to deliver the President in Delta State 2019. That is our priority and the ground is ripe for us to take over that State and deliver 2 million votes for President Buhari in 2019,”
