Revolt In Delta As Okowa Refuses To 'Settle' Governorship Candidates Who Adopted Him As Agreed.

"We the candidates of the opposition parties in Delta State reached a compromise with Governor Okowa through the office of the SSG and a few other government officials to work for Okowa's reelection with a settlement package."

Governorship candidates of opposition political parties in Delta State, under the umbrella of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) and the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), are lamenting the “wicked and unnecessary" delay in settling them for the roles they played in ensuring the reelection of Ifeanyi Okowa in the just concluded March, 9 governorship and house of Assembly elections.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered that a few days to the March, 9, 2019 governorship and house of assembly elections, CUPP and IPAC, through the office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), reached an agreement with Okowa to work for his reelection and were guaranteed a payment running into several millions of naira.

Lamenting the "deliberate act" by Ovie Agas, the SSG, to frustrate the release of the money, a governorship candidate of one of the opposition political parties, who preferred not to be named, said: "We the candidates of the opposition parties in Delta State reached a compromise with Governor Okowa through the office of the SSG and a few other government officials to work for Okowa's reelection with a settlement package.

"You know our parties do not have weight like the PDP and APC, and decided during one of our meetings in CUPP and IPAC to have governorship candidates we can use in negotiating for some benefits with Governor Okowa, which we know has the ‘knife and the yam’ as far as the state treasury is concerned. But to our greatest surprise and disappointment, after all the agreements reached and elections concluded, and Okowa declared winner, the SSG is frustrating all the efforts to get our settlements as agreed."

Chairman of one of the opposition parties in the state, who also doubles as his party's governorship candidate, also preferring not to be named, confided in our correspondent that the whole idea of the opposition parties to float governorship candidates was their "settlement".

"Actually, the idea for the floating of the governorship candidates was mooted by the state chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Fred Obi, and the newly appointed Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter Party Relations, Efe Tobor, who doubles as state chairman of (CUPP) in collaboration with the Senior Special Adviser on Political Matters to the Governor, Festus Ochonogor. Obi and Ochonogor and the SSG have always hijacked money meant for opposition political parties in the state, especially grants.

"The SSG, Ovie Agas, wants to play a fast one on us, but we shall resist his antics with the last drop of our blood. We are supposed to get our settlements this week, but Agas is trying to play a dirty fast one on us. For some days now, the office of the SSG in Asaba has turned to Mecca by the members of political parties, especially the opposition. They have besieged the office for collection of the bargain reached with the state government for the reelection of Governor Okowa and as we talk, it seems we have been deceived."

A few days after the elections, the opposition parties, under the umbrella of IPAC, addressed a press briefing in Asaba, where they said “the governorship election was free and fair and a true reflection of the will of the people”.

Meanwhile, a few days after the election, in a reaction to the Okowa’s victory, Tobor stated that opposition political parties in the state were satisfied with the outcome. He said 39 political parties in the state adopted Okowa, because the political parties believe in equity in the rotation of the governorship positions among the three senatorial districts of the state. He, however, appealed to Okowa to carry members of the opposition political parties along in the scheme of things.

Calls and messages put across to Agas, as well as Obi and Tobor, were not responded to at the time of filing this report. However, a political associate tof the SSG confided in our correspondent that there is conflict between the SSG and the governorship candidates over the issue.

http://saharareporters.com/2019/03/29/revolt-delta-okowa-refuses-settle-governorship-candidates-who-adopted-him-agreed

And to think some indigenes of the state had hope in some of the opposition party candidate that came out is disheartening.

Before Nigeria go better e go tey but I sure say e go better for my lifetime

Okowa my guy.

This Saharareporters should go and write about APC States

In fact it should give us details of what transpired in Rivers State gubernatorial election.... Where the AAC candidate who pasted no poster, no rally, no campaign, no visibility is claiming to have flawlessly won the incumbent governor.

I believe sowore has been in cahoots with the APC hence his refusal to publish the truth is not surprising

GavelSlam:
Well deserved.

Delta state deserves whatever it gets.

Delta State has gotten a refined gentleman as governor. Thanks.

GavelSlam:


For real?


Let's keep it going.

The Delta of our dreams we have today.

Focus on the slum called Lagos.

Shalomc:

Focus on the slum called Lagos.

Lagos is not a slum.

Settled? So their adoptions was based on money.

Hahahahaha

dheaven:
Lagos is not a slum.

Pure slum is 75% of Lagos

GavelSlam:


As a Deltan, I have the right to speak about my state.

Yes, I reside in Lagos and I can say It trumps Delta state on all indices.

By the way, aren't you from. Ekiti state again?

So you're a Deltan?

When money is used for settlement and empowerment, what will be left to carry our developmental projects?

Shalomc:

Pure slum is 75% of Lagos

If Island is your definition of a slum, then you have a million bridges to cross. Between are you not from Ekiti again ? Liar with bad memory

GavelSlam:


No, I be Martian.

Do I come across as something else?

Itsekiri to the bone.

Always thought you're Yoruba. I'm kwale

Ishilove:

Always thought you're Yoruba. I'm kwale

itskeri always behave like Yoruba

To all the FOOLS above bashing a superior Yoruba tribe... e eni kuure!

May the spirit of Ojuelegba visit all of una tonight!

when it comes to politics, northerners are far more wiser and informed...my region, South South, is always backward.

just look at how oppositions sold their chances cos of money when we are seeing northerners voting out incumbent governors...no wonder Delta and bayelsa are the most backward state in South South

j

Hmmm


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Shalomc:

Delta State has gotten a refined gentleman as governor. Thanks.

Can’t you reserve your energy and forget about quoting a robot programmed to think backward? You get time sha.

GavelSlam:



No wonder

Pass the weed.

Lol

Afamed:

If Island is your definition of a slum, then you have a million bridges to cross. Between are you not from Ekiti again ? Liar with bad memory

Which island? The stinking smelly island is not slum?

Governorship candidates of opposition political parties in Delta State, under the umbrella of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) and the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), are lamenting the “wicked and unnecessary" delay in settling them for the roles they played in ensuring the reelection of Ifeanyi Okowa in the just concluded March, 9 governorship and house of Assembly elections.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered that a few days to the March, 9, 2019 governorship and house of assembly elections, CUPP and IPAC, through the office of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), reached an agreement with Okowa to work for his reelection and were guaranteed a payment running into several millions of naira.

Can you just imagine!!

...Stoooopid Ppl Roaming Abt As Opposition Party...Just 4 U To Kno...Whether You Endorse Okowa Or Not He Would Have Won!