A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship aspirant in Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has denied stories making the rounds that he is keeping a killer squad he intends to use in harassing his opponents in the race for PDP’s governorship ticket in the state.
Okowa made the denial yesterday in a chat with Journalists after submitting his nomination form at the party’s secretariat in Asaba, the Delta State capital, described the rumour as a sponsored campaign to smear his image by those who are afraid of him because he is the front runner in the race for the office of governor in the state.
It is very unfortunate that some people believe in smear campaign, if you come to Delta state and ask about me, God knows that I have a history that people can confirm. I have been in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I also served at the state and local council level and they know the kind of person I am but some people are not happy with the growth of others and so they look for ways to carry out smear campaign, it is very unfortunate because that is not Okowa.
Okowa is a man far from those things they described. Possibly, if you look at the history of those doing this, you can directly link them to violence. I am not given to violence and I will never be given to violence but that process is on, and the man who did that campaign was paid N500,000 to do that.
He is already in court with my lawyers, so, I would rather allow the judicial process to take care of that because some people just receive money and make careless statements. I would not like to speak more on it in order not to get involved with court issues.
It is important to know who Okowa is and why people are after him. I am the frontrunner and so, when we have about twenty aspirants, the rest nineteen are looking up to me as the front-runner and they want to do everything possible to slow me down but unfortunately, I have God’s grace and God is leading me steadily to cut the tape. We cannot but continue to give God all the glory because the more they gang up to be against me, the more those who know me show more support
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