CHAIRMAN of Labour Party, LP, in Delta State, Chief Tony Ezeagwu, has lamented the exit of Chief Great Ogboru from the party stating that the walkout of the politician cum business mogul has “depleted” the political clout of the party.

THE cold war between 2015 All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor and his Labour Party, LP counterpart in the state, Chief Great Ovadje Ogboru, deepened, weekend with Emerhor throwing jabs at Ogboru in response to similar shots at him during the inauguration of a pressure group convened by Ogboru at Abraka.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State and governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the 2015 governorship election in the state, Chief Great Ogboru, has warned against imposition of candidates in the party ahead of the 2019 general election.

IMMEDIATE past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has continued his verbal onslaught on Prof. Patrick Utomi and his All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, saying that he (Uduaghan) contested several years with Chief Peter Okocha of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, without “exchanging words.”

The national secretariat of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja became a beehive of activities on Tuesday when Delta political heavyweights stormed the place. This is an insider’s account of what transpired.

Everywhere Great Ogboru goes, he gathers momentum. So, the formal entry of Ogboru and erstwhile Speaker of the Delta House of Assembly, Victor Ochei into the opposition All Progressives Congress, is generating the kind of fireworks that can only be generated by the movement of the famed Peoples General.

National Working Committee, NWC of the All Progressives Congress APC, APC, yesterday, received scores of high-profile defectors from Delta State into its fold.

There has been unease in Delta State Labour Party, LP, since serial governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, said he might collapse the structure of the party in the state, on which platform he ran for governorship in 2015, to now move same to the All Progressives Party, APC. In this chat with Sunday Vanguard, the 2015 Delta APC governorship candidate, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, affirms that Ogboru and a former state House of Assembly Speaker, Victor Ochei, will be admitted into the party in June, but that the move does not amount to a merger.

Famed as the Peoples General, Olorogun Great Ogboru, serially AD, DPP, Labour Party governorship candidate in Delta State is set to leave his latest political haven. However, his exit strategy, this time, is clouded by much controversy.

DELTA State governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP, in the 2015 election, Chief Great Ogboru, yesterday, resigned his membership of the party, saying he was leaving with all those that came with him from the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, and others of like mind.