By Samuel Ogude(Warri)
Former gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the state, Rear Admiral John Kpokpogri(rtd) said time has come for Hon. Joel Onowakpo to take over the mantle of leadership from the incumbent Senator James Manager at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly come this year’s elections and urged all to support him to emerge victorious.
Rear Admiral Kpokpogri(rtd) stated this when Hon.Joel Onowakpo paid consultative visit to his (Rear Admiral Kpokpogri(rtd)) abode in Warri, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State to seek his fatherly support over the weekend.
Real Admiral Kpokpogri (rtd), said:”time has come for you to take over the mantle from incumbent Senator James Manager at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly and as such you deserve all the support to enable you clinch the senatorial seat”.
Speaking further, he said that the APC Senatorial candidate for Delta South represents the Isoko’s Project that is devoid of partisanship, adding that he will commit everything necessary to ensure the Isoko First’ mantra comes to fruition.
While he addressed Joel-Onowakpo as Senator- in- waiting to represent Delta South Senatorial District, the retired Naval Officer who hails from Ikpide-Irri and a Chieftain of the PDP in Delta State noted that, the set time for ex-Chairman, Delta Board of Internal Revenue (DBIR) has come.
According to him, the APC Senatorial candidate possesses all that it takes to be a brilliant Senator, saying, it will be wrong on his part to abandon his son who is eminently qualified, to support another.
He said: “This is an Isoko Project, I will do all my best to make this dream a reality,It will be ethically wrong to abandon my most qualified son for another”.
Earlier in his address, Hon. Joel-Onowakpo said he has come to solicit his (Admiral Kpokpogri’s) fatherly blessings and support towards his ambition to represent the good people of Delta South Senatorial District and pleaded for the elder statesman to use his impeccable disposition and wide contact to mobilize support for him.
With this latest endorsement by Admiral Kpokpogri, the profile of prominent Deltans who have endorsed the candidacy of Hon. Joel- Onowakpo Thomas has continued to swell.
It would be recalled that Hon. Joel Onowakpo a few days before this one, the media became awash with the endorsement of the frontline Senatorial candidate by the Delta State’s foremost leader and ex-Governor of the state, Chief James Onanefe Ibori in his Oghara country home in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State.