Why I Did Not Pick Presidential Nomination Form – Gov, Okowa

The Delta State Executive Governor, Dr. lfeanyi Okowa, has disclosed why he declined pressures to collect Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) nomination form to contest the 2023 presidential election.

Okowa explained he would wait till the party’s presidential primaries when a candidate would have emerged before he would comment on his rumoured desire to be a running mate to a presidential candidate from the northern part of the country.

The governor lfeanyi Okowa announced this during the 2023 quarterly meeting in Asaba, Delta State.

He expressed that though there is pressure from different parts of the country to join the league of presidential aspirants he has not seen the necessity.

According to Governor Okowa, “I would not have lobbed myself into the ring unnecessarily. I will prefer we permit somehow God selected person.

Whatever we do is to unite ourselves for the growth of the nation.”

The governor who affirmed he is still looking up to God to determine his next line of action politically, said his expectation is to accomplish all the projects he started.

Responding to the view of elder statesman, Chief Edwin  Clark that the presidency should be zoned to the south and that he has handed any past or present southern governor that agrees to be running mate of northern candidate to God, Governor Okowa said Clark should know that there are different political parties with different positions.

“There are various political parties. PDP has its rules. There is National Executive Council, (NEC) that has not zoned the presidency and has not come up with a position on that. All l know is that fair, credible process will throw up a candidate to emerge as the party’s presidential candidate,” he said.

On the allegation that he had hijacked the PDP delegates list of the governorship primary, the governor who refuted the allegation said there is a statutory delegates list and it was not in his character to indulge in such a barbarous chore.