Barely 15 days after the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, said the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) is dead, a PDP governorship aspirant and Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly (NASS), Senator James Manager has reechoed that the party was “drowning and dying”.
The long serving Senator from Delta State while reacting to rumour of him instituting court proceedings against unnamed governorship aspirants in the State, said: “I’m greatly disturbed by the recent happenings at the party today. I would not feign ignorance as the party is drowning and dying gradually. If nobody is seeing it, I am seeing it and I am also feeling it greatly” he lamented.
While noting that the story is fake and should be disregarded with no iota of truth he said he would not add to the misfortune the party was going through already.
Hear him: “I want to react to a trending story on a section of the media that I initiated a court case against one of the PDP governorship aspirants in Delta State.
“The purported story sponsored by well-known political merchants is a cesspool of lies and a journalism junkyard from where stories are fabricated against leading political lights.
“It is another desperate attempt to drag my humble self into the mud-sliding and regrettable- avoidable political quagmire we all find ourselves in Delta PDP today.
“I have spent almost 30 years in this business of politics and these stupendous insinuations being sponsored and peddled in the media by these political jobbers are not my modus operandi.
“My style on matters like this over the years are different. The story is fake and nothing could be farther from the truth.
“As the pioneer State Chairman of the party and by extension the father of PDP in Delta State, I would not do anything to further exacerbate the problems for the party and the future of Deltans because Delta is PDP and PDP is Delta.
“I would have initiated certain preliminary actions pro bono but because I’m directly involved as a contender, I’m constrained.
I want to be extremely careful and cautious with suggestions and interventions.
“Going forward, we have to be prayerful to God Almighty and belief in His Supremacy.
“May God not allow those who are inside and outside PDP who have all used its platform to acquire the big names they have today to destroy it. May that day never come, AMEN!”.
It would be recall that on 25th June 2022, Gbagi and the leadership of the SDP while receiving over 9, 000 defectors from PDP and APC in Ugbolokposo, said: “What should gladen your hearts is that, PDP is dead in the state”.
