successor of the current Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, in the next gubernatorial election in 2023.
Gbagi, who made this known in Yenagoa during a reception organized in his honour by the Urhobo Indigenes in Bayelsa State, assured the Urhobo nation that the massive support for the Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa administration was based on the existing agreement on rotation. According to Gbagi, “ In 1998 and 1999, when it was then decided that we are going to play politics, we were three Urohobos apart from other senatorial districts. It was all pre-planned that Urhobo will produce the governor of Delta State as of that time, it was Chief James Ibori, Professor Sam Oyovbaire and myself that ran the Governorship primaries in Delta State”
He, however, pleaded with the Urhobo indigenes to always show support for the administration of Gov. Okowa to allow the PDP administration in Delta State finish strong, ”What I want you people to do and continuously do is to pray for Okowa to finish strong. Okowa is a very wise politician, Okowa knows how we started. If I do over 200 articles on why everybody should let Okowa continue its first and second term, it is because we have an agreement. He holds the Urhobo a duty.
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