Godsday Orubebe declares for 2015 Delta Governorship

Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godsday Orubebe, brushed aside a series of corruption allegations dangling around his neck and publicly declared his intention and preparedness to run for the office of the Delta State governor in the 2015 election.

The embattled minister made his intentions known over the weekend during his condolence visit to the family of the late Alam Barovbe in Ovu Inland, Ethiope East local government area of Delta State. 

He made it clear that ethnicity would be given priority in determining the state’s next governor. “It is the turn of the Ijaw people to produce the next governor of Delta State,” Mr. Orubebe stated.

The minister boasted that God had made him the unanimous choice for the post of state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, added that he expected to be unanimously elected as governor in 2015.

In his statement over the weekend, the minister stressed that the Ijaws must produce the next governor of Delta State irrespective of the next governor’s senatorial district. He stated that the Urhobo and Itsekiri ethnic groups had produced governors, but that the Isoko and Ndokwa have yet to produce one. He therefore insisted it is now the turn of the Ijaw, adding that the various ethnic groups within the state must have “a taste” of the governorship.