 You're welcome back, it's still plus politics. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghgadji. The candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, for the March 18, 2023 governorship election in Delta State, Sharif, or Bore Wuri, on Sunday, reportedly escaped gunmen attack along the Wuri-Sapelle Highway. The Delta PDP governorship candidate, who is also the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, was returning from Sapelle to Osubi when the deadly attack occurred. The convoy of the Delta State PDP governorship candidate, Wright Honourable Sharif, on Sunday, March 12, 2023, came under heavy attack from the unknown gunmen between Lume Junction and Okwa Bude in Okwa Local Government Area of the State. Joining us to discuss this is Ambassador Oga-ga Ogene, Ogene Ole, Deputy DG Mo for Delta Youth Project. Good evening and welcome, Oga-ga. Okay, so just walk us through what really happened, leading to the attacks that as your governorship candidate is saying he went under. Okay, of course you understand that we are in very extraordinary times, where every political party and their candidates are moving around and conversing for both and to continue to participate in their campaign as the campaigns draw to a close. So it was on Sunday evening when our candidate was returning from Sapelle, as you rightly read, after meeting some persons in Sapelle from the candidate in Sapelle. And of course you should understand that Sapelle is one of the candidates stronghold, being that Sapelle Local Government and Okwa Local Government are the same people under one kingdom, which is the Okwa Kingdom. Sapelle people living in Sapelle Local Government or Sapelle people are also Okwa Aborigines who, aside from their local government dimension, they are the same people under the same kingdom that has the same Sapelle and Okwa people. And our candidate is of course from the Okwa Kingdom, just that he is from the Okwa Local Government. And so it's understandable because that area is actually an area where he goes through and also understanding the fact that that federal consistency which is the Okwa Sapelle, Okwa and Okwa federal consistency, had never produced any governor before in the past. So the people take the sheriff's candidates very seriously and of course that is the stronghold. He went to Sapelle, was on campaign and when he was coming back on Sunday, the convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen. And these gunmen were like normal common criminals because from the reports we have, when our candidate fall under attack, the security personnel that is attached to the speaker of the candidate engage them in a combat for about 10 minutes before they were able to successfully get our candidates through that place. And then of course you ask yourself, is it a small criminal or just a common roadside armed robber that would have the capacity, the gun power to be able to engage a speaker, a security detail for up to 20 minutes. Because the candidate we are talking about is not just anybody. But the candidate is the city speaker of the Delta State House of Astrosity. And a governor's candidate also. So you can understand the security itinerary or the security that has to go within. And for such a group to be able to engage this security architecture over 10 minutes tells you that these people were not just robbers that were standing on the way. They were not just criminals that were looking for prey. They were persons that specifically targeted the speaker. Of course if you understand that, we know that if... Well, Gaga, your audio is not really good enough. Maybe you would exit and rejoin and you know however it is going to be. Okay, we can hear you better now. Yes. Okay, thank you. Go ahead. As I was saying, if you understand or those who understand Iran, we agree that maybe sometimes that there are robbers who attack road users. But having the incident of attacking heavily protected politicians or highly placed persons, just a pocket of local armed robbers around that place. But this is just way different. You could see from the pictures of the vehicles, the vehicles of the convoy of the speaker, you see the level of attack, you see gun penetration, you know that these things, these arms were heavy arms. And for them to be able to engage the speaker's security details for 10 minutes tells you that these people are prepared. And of course we are only, we have been asking, we have been trying to begin to ask how people can go, how far people can go with this political time. Who is afraid of the candidacy of Sherry, right of way, who doesn't want him to be alive until he starts to be for the election? These are questions that these attacks are great. Because of course we are worried that the rising, the continuous rise of the acceptance and the popularity of our candidates has begun to attract some attack for him. You know they started, this attack will not just start from this armed attack. From the very first day Sherry came to start a contestant, it was attack, I've been on this TV session before, to talk about this issue, that it was, it started from a normal social media attack, a attack to his credibility, everyone went to court to undermine the authenticity of his resort and the Supreme Court, put a little rest to that. After that the continuous, this man is one of the most highly attacked politicians on social media today. Why? Because of course they know that Sherry is one of the people, Sherry is somebody that you can just, you can't do, you can't just help him, help, not liking him. Sherry is somebody that is accepted, but also we are very worried that these persons are taking politics to another level and we are saying that this is not the kind of politics we want to create, especially in Supreme Court. Well for now, for now that's just conjecture, because all over Nigeria we're seeing armed bandits doing their thing. So I don't know if you have concrete evidence to show that this is a political attack, it could have been anyone, could have been people who just wanted to rob them, could have been anybody, because that is not the first time we are seeing bandits with higher firepower even than the police. So what gave you the idea that it has to be a political one? I will not be talking about clear evidence because I'm not security or critic, I'm not a security personnel and I'm very careful because this is international TV. But I can tell you from analysis like what I said before, whereas we are the residents of Delta City, we understand that and I quite accepted that once in a while there are a couple of robbery incidents in that route. But no time have we recorded a robbery attack on high level and very highly protected politicians on that route. And of course if you analyze the strength of their firepower, you understand that these people are not just people who set out to rob. It is very difficult to attack a convoy of just ordinary person who has protected themselves, not to talk about a speaker of a state. Actually Govno, I think Govno, that person thank you for confirming that that really happened and no matter what it is, we just thank God that he is alive today and he's going to go into the election on Saturday and we wish him well, we wish your team well, we wish your party well, good fortunes in the next in the elections. Thank you so much for being a part of today's show. We're talking with Yole Ogagao-Gene from Delta State confirming that the governorship candidate of PDP was attacked actually at Sapele and unfortunately that's how we're going to wrap it up on the show this evening. We do hope that you had a wonderful time. Let's do it again tomorrow. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji.