PDP has no electoral value in Delta – Ogboru

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no electoral value any more in the state, therefore cannot win there again. Ogboru made this assertion on Saturday in Abuja in an interaction with journalists over the 2019 general election saying that the PDP had always won elections in the state in a way not through the polls. According to him, with the change in government and leadership style at the centre and a new thinking of the people, it would be difficult for PDP to win the forthcoming elections in Delta State, dismissing claims that Delta State is a recognised PDP State. He said: “Well, I have heard people saying Delta State is a PDP state. That is highly untrue because majority and significant number of our people are not PDP complaints. Most of the people in Delta State, the electorate have been opposed to the PDP government for the past sixteen years, maybe for the past nineteen years. “But as you all know, the PDP had been able to sustain itself in many parts of our country, Delta State inclusive by means other than true or proper votes of the electorate. That is history now, time has changed, circumstances have changed, the powers have changed, the leadership of our country has changed and the thinking of our people across the country generally has also changed. “So, I believe that those limiting factors that militated against us in the past are not quite there anymore to make it impossible for us to achieve what we need to do which is to make sure the votes of the people will count, translate those votes into victory and put the government in place for Delta people which is for the people, of the people and by the people which is why I am a candidate”. Ogboru also spoke about the APC crisis in the state saying; “The crises are in two folds. One was the crisis that started during the congresses, and those skirmishes that followed the primaries. We have done a lot in the State to reconcile factions and aggrieved persons and the National body has also set up a reconciliation committee”. Tom Okpe, Abuja