Delta PDP cautions governorship aspirants 

By Dave Okpogadie, Asaba

Governorship aspirants in Delta State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been cautioned against campaigns of calumny in their bid to become the consensus candidate after the party primaries.

The state chairman of the party, Barr. Kingsley Esiso stated this at the party’s secretariat, Asaba during the public expression of the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori, to contest in the 2023 governorship elections.

According to Esiso, “We encourage members of the PDP to aspire to various positions because we are aware that nobody pays money to aspire. The implication of this is that aspiration is free. The speaker has expressed his aspirations to contest for the governorship of Delta State.

“Mr. Speaker, you are welcome and free to aspire. But please, I advise that you must realize that just as you have the right to aspire as governor of Delta State, so do other persons have the same rights to aspire for the same position.

“Therefore, you are free to go about the nook and cranny of the state to sell your aspiration. But as you are doing that, please do it with decorum realising that other aspirants in the field are your brothers and sisters.

“By May, one of you (aspirants) will emerge as the candidate of the party and we will all queue behind him. I assure you that as a party, we have the responsibility to ensure that we organise very free, fair and credible primaries through which our candidate will emerge.”