WARRI — FOR more than two hours after he arrived the Osubi Airport, Osubi, near Warri, Delta State, in a chartered aircraft, at about 12.40 p.m. yesterday, gubernatorial candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, could not get to Effurun, less than five minutes away, because of the massive crowd that came to receive him.

He was drowned in a sea of supporters, mainly people from his Urhobo-speaking area, as Effurun town was locked up in a traffic jam with no movement of vehicles. He, however, managed to get to the venue of the rally by his party with security agents shooting indiscriminately into the air to pave way for him.

Speaking at the rally ground,  he said he would give N100 million to each local government area in the state on a monthly basis to ensure development if elected as Governor of the state.

But one of his backers,  former Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, was conspicuously absent.
With pineapple, the symbol of his party, in his hand, Ogboru, popularly known as “Peoples General” by his supporters, said he had returned home to commence the battle for the re-run election.

He said the former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors of the state came to destroy the state, while he came to bring light to the people.

“We have come for a change, we will give you a sunshine programme, we will see the light again.We will give this state an opportunity for equal development of the local government areas under our Equal Opportunity Development Local Government Development Initiative,” he added.

Each local government will develop at its own space”.

He said his government would not embark on white elephant projects, saying that the battle for change in the state had just started.

National chairman of the party, General Jeremiah Useni (rtd) who was represented by the deputy national chairman, General Bashir Magaji (rtd) said the party came in solidarity with Ogboru to Delta state, adding that with what he had seen on ground, there was no doubt that the DPP would win the re_run polls in the state.