{"id":13313,"date":"2017-02-10T19:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2017-02-10T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:23:38","slug":"ogbodu-rally-support-to-strengthen-pdp-in-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13313","title":{"rendered":"OGBODU RALLY SUPPORT TO  STRENGTHEN  PDP IN DELTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ethiope West<br \/>\nLocal Government Area, Delta State and Nigeria in general have been<br \/>\ncalled upon to work as a united body with a view to strengthen the<br \/>\nparty in order to win back members who decamped or<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/okowa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9877\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/okowa.jpg\" alt=\"okowa\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>making plans to<br \/>\ndecamp to retain the state as a PDP state come 2019 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>This call was made by Mr. Kelvin Oghor Ogbodu, Co-ordinator,<br \/>\nOkowability Prosperity Network (OPN) in a statement made available to<br \/>\njournalists in Effurun,\u00a0 he said that 2019\u00a0 is just by the corner<br \/>\nadding that as a result, it is pertinent for members of the party to<br \/>\ncollaborate with one another to win back members who had jumped ship<br \/>\nover one or two reasons, may be felt used and offended and not<br \/>\ncompensated with political positions to come back into the party to<br \/>\nbecome strong again, adding, &#8220;let&#8217;s do this not only in Ethiope West<br \/>\nLocal Government Area but in the state, South South geo-political zone<br \/>\nand at the national level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12356&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Ogbodu who is the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O),<br \/>\nKelvin Ogbodu Foundation, &#8220;I am using this opportunity to call on all<br \/>\nour brothers and sisters of Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta<br \/>\nState and the nation who are aggrieved in one way or the other about<br \/>\nthe going on in our great party to be patient and remain in the party<br \/>\nfor us to strengthen it, let us join hands together to work as one<br \/>\nstrong family as we used to be under the big umbrella to our great<br \/>\nparty to greater heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8221; let&#8217;s do this not only in Ethiope West, but throughout the<br \/>\nstate and at the national level with a view to keep the state for our<br \/>\ngreat party, the PDP as well as get back at the national level. Let us<br \/>\nwork hard also to get new members into the party, you can see that<br \/>\nalmost over 40% of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Labour<br \/>\nParty and other party with strong holds are former members of our<br \/>\ngreat party, so we have a lot of work to do . I will also commend our<br \/>\nmembers who had been faithful and loyal to the party to remain so and<br \/>\nbe more committed as victory is sure for us come 2019&#8242;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ogbodu called on leaders of the party and all those elected on the<br \/>\nplatform of the PDP to ensure that all those seen to have worked for<br \/>\nthe success of the party are compensated either with appointments or<br \/>\ngiven some form of encouragement to enable them do more in next<br \/>\nelections. He called on Deltans\u00a0 to support the Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa led<br \/>\nadministration in the state to enable him deliver on his SMART Agenda<br \/>\nProgramme for the benefit of all .<\/p>\n<p>On the return of Chief James Onanefe Ibori, former governor of Delta<br \/>\nState from London where he served a jail term, Mr. Ogbodu expressed<br \/>\nappreciation to God for strengthening Chief Ibori to go through his<br \/>\ntravails, he said that Chief Ibori is a dynamic leader with the<br \/>\ninterest of the people at heart, he prayed God to give him protection<br \/>\nand wisdom to carry on now that he (Ibori) is back on the nation&#8217;s<br \/>\npolitical scene.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ogbodu spoke further, &#8220;Chief Ibori is an enigma, a thorough bred<br \/>\npolitician who knows his onions with the interest of his people at<br \/>\nheart, he has gone through the mills now, God saw him through his<br \/>\ntravails and not very many people can go through what he has gone<br \/>\nthrough and still stand strong, we give God the glory for His(God)<br \/>\nmercy upon him(Ibori). Chief Ibori is a man of the people, you may<br \/>\nhave noticed that from the mammoth crowd that came out at the Osubi<br \/>\nAirport and his country home in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government<br \/>\nArea to welcome him home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/market.jumia.com.ng\/computers-laptops-gaming\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=b364e0f2&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=b364e0f2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/b364e0f2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=b364e0f2\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State and Nigeria in general have been called upon to work as a united body with a view to strengthen the party in order to win back members who decamped ormaking plans to decamp to retain the state as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3509,22],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-kelvin-oghor-ogbodu","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/okowa.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3sJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13314,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions\/13314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}