BY FESTUS AHON & AKPOKONA      OMAFUAIRE

UGHELLI—FORMER Minister of State, Education and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,   Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has said that come 2015 governorship election in Delta State, he will emerge the winner as he was the only candidate with the road map to take Delta State to the promised land.

Gbagi, who spoke in Effurun, Delta State, while fielding questions from a team of journalists, insisted that the doctrine of zoning of elective positions in Delta State and the country was being promoted by  lazy politicians, who were scared to engage in political battle.

According to him,  zoning of elective offices has promoted mediocrity in Nigeria’s body politic, with the resultant consequence of bad leadership which has bedevilled the country.

Gbagi insisted that Delta State and the country  cannot be caged into accepting any candidate, come 2015, in the name of zoning, maintaining that the best candidate with proven antecedents and a flawless record should be voted for to lead the state, irrespective of his or her ethnic grouping.

He said: “I stand here as the first chartered citizen of PDP. We did not zone, we have not zoned and zoning by its language is very unfortunate, a language for lazy people who cannot do battle and Delta State being what it is, we would do battle to get the very best.

“If you read what the Speaker of the House of Assembly said some days ago, he said that the irresponsibility of Nigeria today is borne out of that language called zoning.

“When you say everybody should wait that we have zoned it to these people, maybe the entire people from that zone are stupid people, so the state would be saddled with stupid people because you have adopted zoning.”