The Deputy Senate President and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, has appointed a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, as the Director-General of the Delta APC Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation.
This was made known via a statement issued by the spokesperson of the campaign organisation, Ima Niboro, on Wednesday.
Omo-Agege said Orubebe would bring on board “a towering wealth of experience, and shall oversee all ramifications of the campaign for the mandate of Deltans in the 2023 governorship election.
“Orubebe shall, side by side with me, lead critical engagements and drive consultations, and by his renowned robustness, up the ante for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Together with the rest of the team, we shall show PDP the way out of Government House come May 29, 2023,” he said.
The Deputy Senate President added that the selection of the Ijaw-born politician was very straightforward given his knowledge, capacity, and pedigree.
“Bringing him on board strengthens the campaign organisation straightaway, and builds a strategic redoubt of crucial stakeholders at the grassroots for the contest ahead.
“When news of Elder Godsday Orubebe’s resignation from the PDP filtered in, June, our campaign organisation applauded him for toeing the path of progress and enjoined him to pitch tent with progressives in the APC, and help in the task of taking over Government House come 2023.
‘I am proud to announce that he heeded that call and joined our party, the APC, in his ward at Burutu Local Government Area.
“He will be bringing to our campaign organisation his vast reach at the grassroots, as well as at the state and federal levels, having been a supervisory councillor and chairman of local government, a state party chairman, and a two time minister of the federal republic,” Omo-Agege said.
Orubebe, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), served as a minister under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan
He made headlines on March 31, 2015, when he attempted to disrupt the proceedings of the 2015 presidential election collation.
Orubebe alleged that the then chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, had taken sides with the APC.
The former minister later apologised for his conduct.
