The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), for the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, has continued to garner more support across the 25 local government areas of the state.
The latest endorsement and perhaps the least expected is coming from former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, and foremost Ijaw national leader cum former minister of Information, Pa. Edwin Clark, who sees the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Sheriff Oborevwori, as a slight on Deltans.
Gbagi on Sunday June 12th 2022, received the blessings of the two nationalists when he and the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, the National Working Committee (NWC), and other candidates of the party paid the duo a visit at their residents in Mina, Niger State and Abuja.
In their separate remarks, the leaders described the renowned Criminologist and entrepreneur as the only one who has the capacity, integrity and the financial wherewithal to rescue Delta and deliver the dividends of democracy to the people.
The former military president, Babangida, said the Social Democratic Party (SDP), would save the country from eminent collapse.
He charged them to leverage on the brand name, the party has already was known for and use modern technologies to promote the party and its candidates in the 2023 general elections.
According to him, the party was ahead of other Nigerians in other political parties, stressing that his interest in the party made him to be
Ore inquisitive and subsequent closeness to the National Chairman.
“This party will eradicate political literacy in the country and provide solution to the number of problems bedeviling the country”.
Babangida who was elated told the national executive members of the SDP, a party he founded in a buildup to 1993 general elections that, “Seating with you has provided me with health feeling, I thank God that SDP is still existing, is for the benefits of the country.
While urging all Nigerians to join the Social Democratic Party, he said, SDP is geared to eradicate political literacy in the country and provide solution to the problems facing the country.
Gen. Babangida, has called on Nigerians to join forces with SDP, noted that it is the only party to rescue the country from its current challenges.
“Every right thinking man should join this party, I will urge you to use the very power of information to bridge the country, to get people in and reorganize the country,
regenerate Nigeria, it is your party that will reconstruct this country. You are lucky you have a brand name, the SDP, the name is known” he declared.
On his part, Pa. Clark, predicted victory for Olorogun Gbagi, the gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party.
According to the former Minister of Information, who described Gbagi, as a dogged politician, assured the party that the Criminologist of repute, would win the governorship race in a landslide victory.
“I know he is a fighter, he is going to win that seat for you”, praying that God would grant Gbagi his heart desires to become the governor of the State, saying “What is yours, nobody can take it from you except God”.
He stressed that Gbagi has the capacity and the experience to govern the state and take it to an enviable height where investors and other great minds would come to develop.
Also, the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Garbam described IBB as a father of modern democracy in Nigeria.
Garbam expressed optimism that SDP would win the presidential election come 2023.
Earlier, Gbagi, said that the party has remain one without blemish, without criminal records and it has not been found wanting.
“This one that is left, we should support it and make sure that it is great. This baby that is left should be taken”, just as Gbagi, commended Babangida for the foresight in establishing the NFC and SDP during his administration.
“You thought it wise to establish two political parties because of the diversity of the country. It has remain one party that is without blemish, no negative records and it has not been found wanting.
“We are here to tell Nigerians that this is your party you formed, you are a Deltan we have more reasons in the country to make SDP a mirror of Nigeria.
“This one that is left, we should support it and make sure that it is great. Nobody has been able to replicate what you have done. Because they have no foundational understanding of what you know. This baby that is left should be taken”, he said.
Gbagi’s popularity keeps soaring among the masses of Delta daily as he is not known for looting of the treasury while in office, as he is set to seek support from members of the public to pave way for the defeat of PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC), adding that voter apathy that characterized previous elections in the state would be a thing of the past.
A group known as Youth Democratic Party of Nigeria (YDPN), a product of the 2020 #EndSARS protest against police brutality and bad governance, has joined forces with the Social Democratic Party to wrestle power from the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, ahead of the 2023 election.
The group led by a young vibrant northerner, Zekeri Hashim, has relocated to Delta State, to continue with a massive registration to youths, men, women across the state for a wider database aimed at a robust engagement and emancipation.
The group already has its tentacles spread across the nation with over 18 local government areas already covered in the state. The Social Democratic Party, is currently spreading more than Harmattan fire ready to consume barriers.
