By Anjorin Babatunde.
Governor of Delta State and vice-presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday revealed that he’s a child of grace who has successfully occupied several offices from Secretary to Local Government, Chairman of Local Government Council, commissioner in several ministries, Secretary to the State Government, Senator and governor for eight years.
Okowa stated this while receiving no fewer than 5,000 former members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other political parties into the PDP in Asaba.
He urged Nigerians to leverage the huge experience of the party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to turn things around for the country having done so in the past when he served as Vice-President and Chairman of the National Economic Council, and vote the Atiku-Okowa ticket.
He added that the solutions to the nation’s challenges were well-articulated in the party’s manifesto ordered toward rebuilding the country from current abyss.
“Atiku Abubakar is a man with great experience, having been vice president at a time Nigeria was troubled. Today, the issues are worse, not just because of the economy but security, which has gone so bad.
“I tell people that I am a child of grace; it is not by man’s power, because for me to have successfully occupied several offices from Secretary to Local Government, Chairman of Local Government Council, commissioner in several ministries, Secretary to the State Government, Senator and governor for eight years, comes with a huge experience.
“Just today, 1,200 Deltans were empowered and we have done this over time to the chagrin of the opposition in the state, but we will continue to do that because we are investing in the future of the people of our state.
“A lot of youths have become very well established and we have been doing this over time.
“We have completed so many bridges and many are still ongoing, including in rural and riverside communities where many people thought development can never get to.
“When I started the State Secretariat building, they criticized us, saying how is he going to complete it? But today, it is completed” he said.
