2015: Delta PDP Inaugurates Campaign Committee

The campaign committee of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State has been inaugurated. This took place on Wednesday at the Government House in Asaba, the state capital.

Present at the occasion was the governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, who urged members of the PDP to engage in door to door campaign to sensitise Deltans on the need to vote comprehensively for PDP candidates.

He reminded them that the time for celebration of the party primaries was over and it was time to prepare for the main elections.

“The celebration of the primaries is over, what is important is the main election, put what happened at the primaries behind us, come together as a family to deliver our candidates at the 2015 elections because we have to give 100 per cent support and maximum vote to President Jonathan and Dr Ifeanyi Okowa,” Uduaghan said at the ceremony.

He added that, “This is not time for negative media propaganda, use your talents to deliver our candidates, it is going to be a door to door campaign, we have the structure on the ground, we have a lot of achievements both at federal and state levels to market to our people, let all our leaders who are active at both wards and unit levels be mobilised to embark on this campaign.”

The governor informed the gathering that the state PDP campaign would kick off on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at the Oghara Township Stadium while the National Campaign train which will include President Goodluck Jonathan would berth in the state on February 4, 2015.

Performing the inauguration, Chairman of the PDP in the state, Edwin Uzor, also urged members to work for the success of the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa at the polls in February.

Uzor said that the inauguration ceremony would enable the committee start working to ensure victory for all PDP candidates at the polls and called for the support of all PDP faithful in ensuring that the committee achieve its goal.

Also speaking at the occasion was Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, who urged members of the campaign committee to take their assignment seriously and mobilise all Deltans in the nooks and crannies of the state to vote for the party.

He stressed that “elections are close, we must campaign vigorously, we will have rallies to let our people know that we are on ground, door to door campaign is imperative so as to sensitise the electorates and bring out the votes.”

The gubernatorial candidate harped on the unity and peace of the state and urged the party faithful to embark on issue based campaign.

He commended the transformation agenda of the President Jonathan’s administration and its level of tolerance and the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for working to achieve success for the party at both national and state levels and called for cooperation of all to achieve this goal.