Posted on 04th Aug 2013
*As Igbuzor and Keyamo enter into pact
Author: By Onitsha Shedrack
The crisis rocking the political family of Chief Great Ogboru, the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) leader and the governorship candidate of the party in 2011 election in Delta State, is growing worse as a prominent member of the group, Chief Frank Kokori, a former NUPENG Secretary-General may have dumped Ogboru’s DPP to pitch tent with the All Progressive Congress (APC), an emerging political force in Delta State.
Urhobo Times gathered that the alleged move by the elder statesman Chief Kokori, may not be unconnected with Chief Ogboru’s refusal to join the progressive in the yet to be registered APC, where most of Kokori’s contemporaries are now aligning in a mission, to rescue and pilot the affairs of the country from the ruling PDP.
Chief Kokori in an interview with Urhobo Times on the reception of the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and some Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leaders recently in Warri at the country home of Chief Festus Keyamo, said, “If APC is registered, which am very sure that it will, I will go with the APC; because I am a progressive, and whoever emerges as the APC governship candidate I will throw my support behind him.”
He added that since APC is almost registered; “It therefore means that DPP is almost dead because it will be a straight fight between the PDP and the APC in the coming election and you should know that I was the former Deputy National Chairman of DPP before I resigned. I only
joined the DPP because of Chief Ogboru’s governorship ambition but now that I have resigned, I no longer have a stake in the party, so what would I be doing in DPP?” he quarried.
On his relationship with Chief Keyamo, he stated that Kayemo is like a son to him and that he will support anybody that emerges as the APC candidate, stressing that being seen with Keyamo does not mean endorsement of his candidature.
“I was only at his house in Warri with other party chieftains to give Governor Oshiomhole who is a fellow comrade a befitting reception,” he added.
It was gathered that Chief Kokori having studied the political situation in Delta has come to realize that it will take more than just the political forces in Delta state to dethrone the Ibori/Uduaghan political dynasty which has held the state captive since 1999, decided to team up with the APC as represented by Keyamo’s led Delta Forces United (DFU).
DFU, a pressure group led by Festus Keyamo with ideology founded on the philosophy of Charles De Gaulle that “…politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians” claims to be deeply concerned about Delta State.
Keyamo though relatively new to Delta politics may however put up a great show considering the Urhobo factor, the caliber of persons who have identified with his course, thereby fueling the speculations that Ogboru’s days as the symbol of opposition in Delta State are numbered.
It will be recalled that before the death of late Senator Pius Ewherido, the only DPP Senator, the party had been torn into two factions, one lead by Ogboru, the other by Senator Ewherido who was likely to fly the APC flag if registered during the next general election, and with the death of Ewherido, the future of DPP in the State seems to have gone blink.
Meanwhile, it was gathered by Urhobo Times that a former member of the Police Service Commission, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, a likely contender for the governorship position in the State on the APC platform, entered into a pact with Keyamo and with both of them agreeing to support who ever emerges as the party’s flag bearer during the State gubernatorial election.
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