JOHNSON EBIGIDE
The Acting Director General (DG) of the Abel Esievo Campaign Organisation ahead the Delta State gubernatorial election in 2023, Adm. Tola Ajemisogbe, has said that declining the invitation of the Urhobo lobby group, the DC-23, for screening of the governorship aspirant of the organisation, Chief Abel Esievo, was a masterstroke that had placed the aspirant ahead.
Adm. Ajemisogbe stated this as a guest speaker at the Delta State Broadcasting Service (DBS) studios at Edjeba Warri.
He said that it was a careful decision the organisation had to take, considering the double edge of the invitation and clarified that it was better to be on the path of the law than to please a few individuals.
The Acting DG posited that membership of the committee were singlehandedly picked by a single individual to carryout a premeditated action aimed at winnowing off aspirants that were not in his good book, adding that it was a cash and carry committee.
He said that it was unfortunate that some aspirants for reasons best known to themselves honoured the invitation to be screened, only to turn the other side of their cheeks by rejecting its outcome after being screened out as expected, adding that such political summersaults should be eschewed by any governorship aspirant who hoped to succeed Governor Okowa, whom he described as a man of his word.
Reacting to the question on what next the organisation was planning to strengthen and brighten the chances of the governorship aspirant of the organisation, the DG simply implored Deltans to be wary of the gimmicks of a few individuals working secretly to lord it by foisting unpopular aspirant on them, adding that the Abel Esievo Campaign Organisation is a team of seasoned individuals that would continue to project the principal, Chief Esievo, as the right aspirant to succeed Governor Okowa in 2023.