A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Olorogun Sunny Onuesoke, has advised a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, to stop dreaming of winning the forthcoming 2019 election in the state and concentrate on returning to the PDP.  Onuesoke, was reacting to a statement credited to Emerhor in which he said he was not surprised by the recent endorsement by Chief James Onanefe Ibori of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for a second term in office come 2019. Emerhor had boasted in the story that the APC in the state was prepared to meet Ibori,  Okowa and the PDP at the 2019 election  to finally determine which party now owns the state’s political landscape.

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Onuesoke, who is from the same constituency with Emerhor, advised Emerhor to come back to PDP and pledge his loyalty to Ibori which he (Emerhor) said is the alter ego and defacto principal of the PDP in the state.

Onuesoke said Emerhor and his co-travelers in the APC were no threat to the PDP in Delta come 2019, saying Emerhor and any party he belongs to had never won any election in the state. “The records  are there to justify my point”, Onuesoke added.

He went on. “During the 2007 governorship primary election of the PDP held at Ogwashukwu town, Emerhor  scored  only 78 votes. Even in the 2015 general elections, his party, the APC, which he was the flagbearer of, never won any local government area in the state. He even lost his own unit at Evwreni; so I wonder the magic he wants to perform to overcome the PDP come 2019”.