By Weeks after joining the All Progressives Congress (APC), a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe has been appointed to head the campaign council of the party’s gubernatorial candidate in Delta State, Ovie Omo-Agege.
Omo-Agege, who currently serves as the Deputy Senate President, confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday.
According to him, Orubebe will be bringing his “vast reach at the grassroots” to the campaign council where he is expected to serve as Director General.
The ex-minister, a kinsman of former President Goodluck Jonathan, had made headlines when he almost disrupted the announcement of the 2015 presidential election. He dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in June, and joined the APC.
Omo-Agege said, “When news of Elder Godsday Orubebe’s resignation from the PDP filtered in, June, our campaign organisation applauded him for toeing the path of progress and enjoined him to pitch tent with progressives in the APC, and help in the task of taking over Government House come 2023.
“I am proud to announce that he heeded that call and joined our party, the APC, in his ward at Burutu Local Government Area.
“He will be bringing to our campaign organisation his vast reach at the grassroots, as well as at the state and federal levels, having been a supervisory councillor and chairman of local government, a state party chairman, and a two time minister of the federal republic.”
