Delta 2023: Omo-Agege appoints Orubebe Director General, APC Governorship Campaign organization

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, on Wednesday disclosed the appointment of former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, as Director-General of the APC Campaign Organisation in the State.

The Director of Communications and Media Strategy, Ima Niboro, for the APC Governorship Campaign Organisation, in a statement on Wednesday, disclosed that Omo-Agege, appointing Orubebe as his campaign DG expressed optimism that the former Minister will bringing on board his wealth of experience to coordinate all campaign activities for the mandate of the voters in Delta in the 2023 governorship election.

The deputy senate president stated:  “Orubebe shall, side by side with me, lead critical engagements and drive consultations, and by his renowned robustness, up the ante for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Together with the rest of the team, we shall show PDP the way out of Government House come May 29, 2023.”

Omo-Agege maintained: “Bringing him on board strengthens the campaign organisation straightaway and builds a strategic redoubt of crucial stakeholders at the grassroots for the contest ahead.

“When news of Elder Godsday Orubebe’s resignation from the PDP filtered in, June, our campaign organisation applauded him for toeing the path of progress and enjoined him to pitch tent with progressives in the APC and help in the task of taking over Government House come 2023.

‘I am proud to announce that he heeded that call and joined our party, the APC, in his ward at Burutu Local Government Area.

“He will be bringing to our campaign organisation his vast reach at the grassroots, as well as at the state and federal levels, having been a supervisory councilor and chairman of local government, a state party chairman, and a two-time minister of the federal republic.”

Orubebe since the APC government has been under prosecution on allegations of corruption, leading to the freezing of some of his bank accounts by the federal government.