Delta APC chairman inaugurates state, LG executives, vows to unseat Okowa

Twenty-four hours after his inauguration in Abuja, the Delta State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Cyril Ogodo, has also inaugurated the state working committee and local government executive of the party.

He, therefore, vowed to defeat the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government come 2019 general elections.

Ogodo, who was inaugurated along 33 new state chairmen of the party in Abuja on Monday by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, called on all leaders of the party to unite ahead of the 2019 elections in the state.

Speaking on Tuesday while inaugurating SWC and LG officials of the party at the State Secretariat in Asaba, he charged the new leadership to go back home to reconcile all aggrieved members of the party.

He clarified that there was no crisis in the state chapter of the party, adding that what played out during the last congresses was only a show of interests in a normal democratic setting.

Ogodo added that the party was big enough to accommodate all interests and provides a level playing field for aspirants seeking to contest the 2019 elections on the platform of the APC.

The new chairman, however, charged the new leadership in the state and members of the party to go and sensitise Deltans on the achievements of the President Muhammad Buhari-led administration in the last three years.

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He stressed that there was no alternative to APC in the forthcoming elections in 2019 as the ruling party will defeat every gang-up against the Buhari-led government in 2019.

“APC has come to stay and at the moment no party can defeat the ruling APC in 2019. The President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has turned around things for Nigerians.

“It will be too costly for Nigerians to jettison Buhari who is fast turning the country’s fortune.

“In our state (Delta), this is a sign of a new beginning in our party. PDP in the last 20 years has misused the resources of our state. In 2019, we shall bring to an end this ugly government in our dear state.

“Let me also inform the people of Delta State that there is no crisis in APC. There is no faction as well.

“We are begging some of our leaders who may be aggrieved by the results of the congress to accept it as the will of God that it is not their turn.

“We should all unite to dislodge Okowa and PDP from the government in 2019”, he added.

The oath of office was administered by Barr. Nelson Enumah and Barr. Ashibogwu Ashibogwu who doubled as the state party’s legal advisers.

Although factional leaders such as Chief Great Ogboru, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Prophet Jones Erue could not be sighted, the event was attended by other leaders and members of the party from the 26 local government areas including Chief Hyacinth Enuha,