Former Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has declared that he has enough will to run and win the governorship battle in Delta State under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) come 2023.
He made the declaration late Tuesday at his country home of Oginibo in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State during an interactive session with journalists where he officially declared his interest to contest for governorship in 2023.
The business mogul, who reiterated that it was the turn of Delta South Senatorial District to produce the next governor, vowed to “run Delta without using Delta vehicles,” and other specks of the office.
“I’ve come to redesign the topography of Delta. In one year, when I come into government, if you don’t see industries, development and jobs coming, I’ll tender my resignation,” he vowed.
According to the acclaimed founder of the PDP and astute entrepreneur, in the first 100 days of his government, no Deltan would be in the streets looking for jobs to do.
When asked if it was not too early to ruffle the political nest with four years still in view, Olorogun Gbagi, who appears to have expressed his interest first, said since he was not a political appointee and he has his personal treasury to spend on his consultations, there was no need lying idle with his ambition.
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“I heard that some commissioners serving in government who want to run are waiting to gather enough money before beginning consultations.
“I don’t need to wait. I have my money and I’ve never been a guest of graft bodies; I’ve started my race and I’m doing well,” he affirmed, noting that at the appropriate time, the men will be separated from the boys.
He praised Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for his developmental strides in all parts of the state amid available resources, adding that, “if Okowa is doing what others had done in the past in Delta, there’ll be no Delta and if Okowa had been in power since the inception of the state, things would have been far better.”
He warned some ethnic nationalities and sub-ethnic groups in Delta South and Delta Central agitating to produce governor come 2023, to remember that the gentlemanly rotational principle of the PDP in the state is based on senatorial districts and not ethnic groupings.
“We do not zone governorship to tribes but by Senatorial districts. It is left to the people of the central to decide who they want. Delta Central alone cannot make a governor alone. We need the support of the south and north districts,” he noted.
He explained that the assumption by people that he is a tough man was a proof of astute discipline he got from his late father whom, he said, daily whipped him into the line of discipline.
He revealed that as an entrepreneur, he spends between N18 million and N27 million monthly to pay salaries of staff of his entrepreneurial establishments, insisting that Governor Okowa is doing well in the state.
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