Delta State Governorship Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has dismissed as laughable the comments of Delta State SDP Chairman, Mr. Oke Idawene that the party was not part of his petition at the tribunal challenging the declaration of Mr. Sheriff Oborevwori as governor-elect.
YourCitiNews reported that during a visit to Oborevwori, on May 3, Idawene with other members of the state executive committee said the Delta SDP had written officially to the tribunal that “we are not part of any litigation against your (Oborevwori’s) emergence.”
Speaking on the issue, Gbagi, said that Idawene and members of his executive committee had been suspended and the chairman was not a signatory to his petition.
Gbagi alleges that Idawene is a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and has been working with the ruling party to undermine the SDP.
“It is a notorious fact that the petition at the tribunal is jointly signed by the National legal adviser of SDP and the Governorship candidate of the party…Oke as it has become confirmed, is a member of the PDP and all such persons working with him being PDP members to bring down SDP.
“I congratulate the leadership of the national working committee, I congratulate our new chairman, Esther Ikule and the new state exco, I submit myself as a principled loyal friend and a member of the SDP.
“The party members are further notified that the sacking of Oke and his agents is not reversible and the letter of his sack has reached the State director of the DSS, State commissioner of police, State commissioner of INEC, State commissioner of NSCDC, State IPAC, National Chairman of INEC and all relevant authorities in Delta and the country respectively.
“Oke having been validly sacked becomes history and his ranting is the ranting and last breath of a dead animal.
Disregard him in totality while we set up machinery for SDP to claim its stolen mandate and build the membership swell of this great party. The SDP has come to stay,” he concluded.
