Ahead of 2023 governorship election in Delta State, a Niger Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, youth group, Niger Delta APC, Youth Vanguard, ND-APC YV has hailed emergence of Rt Hon Friday Osanebi as running mate to Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
Reacting to the decision of the Delta State APC chapter's on Osanebi to be the running mate to Senator Omo-Agege, the National Coordinator, ND-APC YV, in a statement signed by its President/National Coordinator, Gen Fiawei Pathfinder, noted that the duo are men of integrity with impeachable track record of good governance that will change the narrative come 2023.
Commended the process of Osanebi emerged as running mate, the group noted that Rt Hon Osanebi is a young man of integrity with unblemished track record.
Also, the grassroots-based organisation added that it has thrown its weight behind the Omo-Agege/Osanebi governorship ticket as it unanimously endorsed the deputy governorship candidate slot of the former Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly.
‘‘Rt Hon Osanebi is a young man of integrity with unblemished track record, A onetime pioneer President of Ndokwa Youth Council who worked hard to bring community development with employment opportunities to the youths of Ndokwa Nation by engaging most of the multinational oil companies in the Ndokwa domain such as Agip, Saipem, Sterling Global Oil Company and others by ensuring that all MoU's agreements towards community development was adequately approved.
‘‘He is a young man that is well accepted by all various youth groups, women the elderly and the traditional rulers in the entire Delta North Senatorial District. He is a round peg in round hole and has all it takes to be a competent deputy governor based on his antecedents as a lawmaker a well-established Business entrepreneur, a loyal the party stakeholder and a dedicated family man. His unparalleled effective representation of his constituency while he was Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly is unquestionable’’
However, the group called on the neglected oil producing communities in the riverine to take their destiny in their hands to elect the candidates of the APC to rescue them from the shackles of bad administration.