As Deltans await the judgement of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, the State capital, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi FNIM, OON, has dropped a bombshell, saying the immediate past governor Ifeanyi Okowa had wanted to stop him from participating in the election with gun.
Gbagi, a renowned Criminologist, who spoke on Arise News on Sunday July 30th 2023, explained that Okowa, through his aide-de-camp (ADC) faced him with a gun to prevent him from participating in the process.
The largest employer of labour in the State and former Minister of State for Education, said he refused to allow any man, not one that is in the nature of Okowa to stop his future dreams of becoming the governor of the state.
Hear him: “Delta State has been a state that lived from the inception of democracy in what we called a deceitful arrangement against the people of the State.
“I’m a founder of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the State. I contested the primary against James Ibori. And as it finished from Central, it went to South, from south, it came to North and it was coming back to Central.
“I bided my time, believing that it was good time for us to present our credentials before the people and the electorate to decide.
“But Quite sadly, when Okowa, who just finished, came into power or he was to come into power, he was totally rejected by the Urhobo people greatly, who are majorities in the state.
“Incidentally, it was on this seat here that he came and spoke to me in my house here in Oginibo, to allow him to do what he needed to do to become the governor, which I did.
“I thought that all you needed was honesty, probity, transparent behaviour, and no questions.
“As God has have it, everybody has come to see that, that is the case. He played me out and then lied to me in all manners.
“I don’t believe that his stepfather, Okowa, did but lied to me, and what happened happened when he faced me with a gun through his ADC to stop me from participating in the process.
“So I had no option but to allow any man, not one that is in the nature of Ifeanyi Okowa, to stop my future my dreams.
“That was what led to my going out of the party to the SDP to seek election and ask the people to decide.
“Now, what has happened, if you saw the results, thinking that he was very clever, he had emasculated the entire process of the election and allocated votes to his party”, he stressed.
