Urhobo Progress Union Endorse Chief Great Ogboru

                 

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, has insisted that his endorsement by the leadership of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has not brought any crack or division to the union.

Ogboru has thanked the leadership of UPU for endorsing him as the governorship candidate of the Urhobo people.

He stated while briefing newsmen in his Abraka country home Thursday that the UPU endorsement has given him victory in at least 10 local government areas, describing the February governorship election in the state as two horse race.

Ogboru however said some persons were aggrieved because their candidate did not get the endorsement of the Urhobo apex body, calling on the candidate of APC, Chief O’Tega Emerhor, and his followers to join forces with him. 

He said politics was a game of interest and his interest was to better the lots of all Deltans as a pan Delta agenda.

He insisted that he was still in contact with the electorates,  protect the mandate of the people and that he was positioned to govern the state with hope that he would get the required spread to clinch the governorship in the forthcoming election.

While saying that elections were 75 per cent free and fair in Delta North and Central going by past elections, he alleged that elections were often manipulated in the Delta South Senatorial district. He however said machineries were being put in place to check it in the February election.

Senatorial candidate of LP, Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege who also fielded questions from newsmen, said Chief Great Ogboru was in a better position to win the election and expressed confidence that Chief O’Tega Emerhor would queue behind Ogboru before the elections.

Saying that they were Urhobos before belonging to political parties, Omo-Agege held that their different interest would be harmonized before the elections.

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