By Monday Osayande, Asaba
Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, yesterday, tasked Delta citizens to produce no fewer than one million votes for the party in the forthcoming general elections.
Okowa said the votes would justify his emergence as the running mate to the party’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
He gave the charge at Ogwashi-Uku during the party’s council campaigns in Aniocha South and Aniocha North councils of the state.
The governor said his emergence was an act of God because he was at home when he was chosen to become vice-presidential candidate.
“We have over 3.3 million registered voters in Delta and I challenge us to churn out over one million votes for our party to enable us deliver on our Rescue Nigeria mission.
“The more votes we bring from Delta, the bigger my voice will be in the party and the greater things we will witness in Delta and Nigeria,” he said.
He urged the people to go back home and mobilise votes for the party, and affirmed that God had sanctioned the party’s victory at the polls.
On the governorship election, he disclosed that God revealed Oborevwori’s emergence to him and charged the people to support him because God had endorsed him as a worthy successor.
MEANWHILE, Okowa, yesterday, deplored the gruesome murder of a medical doctor, Uyi Iluobe, in a hospital in the state.
The deceased was allegedly attacked and killed by relatives of his patient at a hospital in Oghara in Ethiope West Council of the state.
In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, the governor said the act of the assailants was barbaric and reprehensible.
He charged security agencies to intensify investigation into the killing and to leave no stone unturned to fish out his assailants and bring them to justice.
Okowa said the killing of the medical doctor was unjust and unprovoked, adding that it was an act by agents against peace and progress in the state and should be flayed by every well-meaning citizen.
Source: The Guardian
