 In the build-up to the 2023 Governorship Elections in Delta State, Sheriff Orbovoree has extended an olive branch to Mr. Eddebiwe as Supreme Court's reaffirms his candidacy. Now, Mr. Eddebiwee earlier alleged inconsistencies in the names of the academic certificate submitted by Mr. Orbovoree to INEC. Now he contended that Mr. Orbovoree was not eligible to participate in the primary elections on the grounds of alleged discrepancies in his academic qualifications. However, the Supreme Court had said that the allegations of certificate forgery and faking of documents against the Speaker were such that required witnesses from those who issued the certificates. And joining us to discuss this is Oga-ga-gane Ogane Yolei, Deputy DG for More Delta Youth Project and of course is a member of the PDP. Good to have you join us. Good evening. Good evening and thank you. The last time you and I had this conversation, we were still talking about the discrepancies but what we're hearing today is that there is some form of peace process going on within the party to unite the factions, the somewhat warring factions and paint a picture to us as to who's extending the olive branch and who's receiving it. Okay, so first I want to say you open the conversation but you did not close it. You said the last time we had this conversation, we're still talking about the discrepancies. It is important to also note now that there are no more discrepancies. The Supreme Court have ruled and in favor of the candidates. Now talking about fashions, like I reiterated that time, we don't have any fashions in two fashions of PDP in Delta State. We only have one PDP. Optional, we only have one state chairman of the People's Democratic Party at the state level and at all local government and to world levels there is no fashions. There are no two chairmen in one particular world or in a local government. That is to tell you that there are no fashions. What we had was a disagreement within the party. So PDP felt that candidates were not qualified to vote and they went and approached the courts. It is their right to do so, their fundamental right to do so. And these, like I said, cases are democracy. They have gone to the courts, they have tested their opinions, their reservations with the law and it went in favor of a candidate. Now immediately, even before the Supreme Court ruled, we as a people in the PDP had been able to set up an internal peace move, the reconciliation committee, the peace and reconciliation committee. They reached out not only to the persons who went to court on the humanitarian election, but those people who contested and lost, those who went for the primary, different people, both at the assembly level, at the rise of level and at the Senate level, who went for elections and left. And so far most of the humanitarian candidates, aspirants prior to the primaries, have since integrated themselves into the campaign, the VLB campaign, and have been going around the state campaigning for the passing of Jericho Barore. Talking about the recent, we heard after the Supreme Court came and addressed these people and told them that it is not yet over that they should give hope and life. But the most important message left to them was that it was still in the PDP. And luckily yesterday, you know, this agreement like this, it takes time to hear, people must have been caught in the process. And so just day before yesterday or yesterday, when the campaign, one-to-one campaign trail got to his ward in Amsterdam, he was in the Senate ward and he sent a representative. And he presented to Kerry stated that he was not able to catch up their misdesplited, if not he would have been there in person. But he also announced that Edebye, who is their principal, has sent 100,000 Naira to support the Kulama presentation for the candidate with the right of Erebus Sharif of Morori, and also went for that to ask them to announce that he's fully with the PDP and that his support is with right of Erebus Sharif of Morori. And that anytime he returns, he will return very soon to call a ward meeting and also inform his ward officially that he is with the candidate, that the God's processes are over and it is now to be integrated. That brought warmth in the heart of a lot of PDP members and so many of his followers who have long wished that we are going to unite and work together as a party because in Delta State and Nigeria, we have no other option now than to kick the opposition out and remain and rebuild the country. Going forward, I want to also say that major key players that were interested in this particular matter have also come out to speak up. For instance, the daughter of the former governor Ibori, his excellence James Sonaneve Ibori, is a House of Friends candidate in the Ito East and West Federal constituency. And she was with our principal, Erebus Sharif of Morori in all the wards that a ward to ward campaigns in Ito East and West. And she was able in all those wards to reiterate support of herself and her father in those places. One of the long-serving friends of the former governor is also a senatorial candidate in the Delta Central Senatorial District. The person of Senator Iwo Ita Mori came out to say that he can affirm that our leader, Chief General of Network Mori, is with the PDP and the support Sharif of Morori. Also, three days after that, the immediate past governor of Delta State, who is the person of his excellence, Ibangwe Weito Odua, hosted the Delta South's general campaign in his work in his House. And he formed them that is in full support of Sharif of Morori and urge everybody irrespective of their differences to support the PDP to win in the election. With this, we can confidently say that the internal crisis in PDP have finally been put to rest and we are headed for a very interesting time. We are ready for the election and we are going together as a whole, so as a united party. Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about your candidate because of course we know that that seat is keenly contested. We also have the obedient movement in your state. We also have the opposition and the Deputy Senate President who's eyeing that seat also, I beg your pardon. Yes, the Deputy Senate President, yes, he's also eyeing that seat. So I'm going to ask a very direct question. What are the chances that your candidate is going to be the man for the job, especially as we know that there are three very strong contenders for that seat? Okay, first, there are no three very strong contenders. We only have one very strong contenders. Others are just running out. First, let's start with the obedient movement you are talking about. Yes, when you talk about obedient movement in my state, yes, there's obedient movement. There was an obedient, a very formidable obedient movement in my state prior to the campaign. But when the campaign started, when we started reaching out to the people, word to word, community by community, to let them understand the essence of being together as a people. That movement has really died down in my state. And even when it was high, when it was high, it wasn't about the state, it was about the presidency. As I can tell you that Delta, 99% of Delta don't know who is the Labour Party candidate in the Delta state. 99.9% of Delta states, even the obedient themselves, does not know the name of the governorship candidate of Labour Party in my state. And then talking about the Deputy Senate president, yes, Deputy Senate president is in the ways. And of course, he is not just the number four person in Nigeria, but that does not translate into strength of the party in my state. APC in my state is a candidate party. Nobody in Delta state will, in his right sense, vote a candidate of the whole APC. As I'm talking to you in the entire house of assembly. But he's the Senate, he's a Deputy Senate president and this is not his first time at the National Assembly. So when you say nobody will vote for him, who are the people who voted for him and why is he there? I say nobody in his right senses would vote for APC in my state, especially for the governorship position. Now, let me explain. He may be a strong person within his party structure, which of course, and him give number four position in Nigeria, which is the Deputy Senate president. But that does not translate into strength of the party in my state. Individual strength in his party structure does not translate into party strength in my state. My state is a full PDP state. And we are in PDP because PDP have continued to deliver dividends of democracy to our people in Delta state. And as such, Delta stand with them. I was trying to explain something to you. In the entire state assembly, we have 29 members of the state assembly. Only two of them, 27 are PDP, we are PDP. And only two of them, we are in APC. Except today, a member of the House of Assembly representing the Deputy Senate President's constituency, just the count of the PDP with thousands of its followers. Leaving only one person of the APC in the House of Assembly, who does not us even come from the constituency of the Deputy Senate President. So as we talk to you, PDP has the 99%, 99.9% majority. We told you 0.1 minority from the APC. Now when we are talking about... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you're a national TV. How did you arrive at this statistics? I mean, you have one vote. You have one vote. So does every other member of the PDP. They have just one vote. You can't tell me on national TV that the PDP has 99.9. Come on. Where did you arrive from? Where did you arrive at? That's statistics. It's practical. It is practical. We are just... Can you kindly explain to me how you arrived at this? Because like I said, you have one vote. So does every other member of your political party. You can't call the elections before you even start in the first place. Are you still there? Come on, can you hear me? We are in a one-to-one campaign. 270 words of Delta states. And almost all the words are the random ones. When you go to that place, you see the crowd. Like the crowd in a local government campaign structure. Oh, I think that we're having a connection issue there with... We lost that connection with you for a bit. Can you hear me now? I can hear you. Go ahead quickly. In closing. Because they wanted to borrow from the one-to-one campaign PDP has done. If they have the strength, they would have gone to the 270 words like PDP did. But as we are talking to you, they're only going to the 75 words out of the 250, then 70 words. That translates to three words or four words. The local government. And in some local government, we have 14 words. We have 11 words. We have 13 words. We have 12 words. So how does campaigning in only three words, out of 13 words, 14 words, translate into winning? Even when you look at the stretch, because you are not in Delta, if you are in Delta state, nobody is even talking about helping see the governorship candidate. Why? Only a few percent of that is aid. If you look at the spread, the governorship candidate is from Delta Central. The chairman of the party is from Delta Central. Ninety percent of the people who constitute the campaign committee council is from Delta Central. It's only the DJ of campaign that is from South. And the DJ of campaign cannot even win his unit. The same DJ, what we call the Mouruba Ben, who was shouting at the National Assembly because he wasn't able to deliver, is not the campaign DJ. You don't use the failure to come to win a election. Only the affirm failure. Okay, we have to go. I want to say thank you. I wish you and the PDP in Delta state good luck. Hopefully your peace process and, of course, your campaigns go well. Wishing every other political party in Delta state the same luck. The deputy DG for more Delta use project in Delta state. And he's also a member of the PDP. Thank you so much for being here. It's good to have you again. Well, thank you all for being part of the conversation tonight. That's where we draw the curtains. We'll be back tomorrow with the biggest stories on the Nigerian political scene. And my name is Mary-Anna. Come see you tomorrow.