The Commissioner for Information in Delta State, Charles Aniagwu, on Thursday, declared in Asaba that “it would take a miracle for the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, to win the governorship election in the state in 2023.”
The commissioner asserted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is very strong and popular in the state despite the current court tussle over the party’s governorship candidate.
He maintained that Omo-Agege of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has no hold in the state.
Aniagwu, said that the PDP had over the years done quite well in the state having progressively won elections in all senatorial districts.
The commissioner declared: “the greatest disadvantage the APC has in Delta is not only the fact that Omo-Agege is not truly on ground but largely because of the very ineffective performance of the APC at the National level.
“Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege is someone I have immense respect for and he knows it because I can actually call him a senior friend because once in a while we interact.
“He has all the rights to contest but he knows that when it comes to Delta, that it will take a miracle for him running on the platform of the APC to be able to win.
” This is because apart from the fact that Delta is almost synonymous with the PDP, the performance of Governor Okowa in the last seven and half years has dealt a very big blow to the APC.
“And the chances of APC in Delta have been further worsened by the abysmal performance of the APC at the national level especially in the area of the economy, education, security and their inability to manage our diversity.
“In 2019, they had federal might yet we taught them a lesson, a bitter one at that.
“In 2015, Okowa won 21 local government areas out of 25 and in 2019, in spite of their strength with Omo-Agege, Ogboru, Emerhor and all of them put together, Okowa won in 23 local government areas.
“He didn’t just win them in Delta North and Delta South, he went to their stronghold in Delta Central and won in six LGAs out of eight LGAs and what that tells you is that the PDP has continued to expand and deepen its roots across the state.”