By Emma Amaize, Godwin Oghre & Theresa Ugbobu

OGHARA—BOLSTERED by a massive crowd that thronged Oghara, Ethiope Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, for the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship campaign for next month’s elections, the governorship standard bearer, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that his party will win the state with a landslide.

Sen Okowa

Flanked by his running mate, Mr Kingsley Otuaro, Okowa, who started by singing praises to God and promising to look up to Him, said: “I thank Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for providing the platform for us to emerge as candidates of the party.”

Okowa said he wants party members to forget about division and work collectively as reconciled faithful to ensure a landslide victory at the polls, adding, “I will treat everybody equally.”

He urged Deltans to forget the opposition parties and their confused candidates in the state, who, he said, keep changing their platforms every voting year and stay put with the winning party, PDP, which has been delivering the dividends of democracy to the people.

He said: “We will develop agriculture in such a way that Deltans will be happy. We will ensure accelerated industrialisation of the state. Governor Uduaghan started the Warri Industrial Business Park, WIBP, we will ensure that core investors are brought in. We will partner the private sector to establish two other industrial parks to develop the state.

“We will restructure the educational sector for the people to acquire skills and be gainfully employed; we will continue to emphasise quality education. Uduaghan has done well in the medical sector. Women are happy because they do not pay for their children under five years too. We will ensure, through legislation, that there will be a health insurance policy in Delta State and that way, everybody will benefit.”