Delta State is made up of five distinctive ethnic groups, namely Urhobo, Igbo, Ijaw, Isoko and Itserkiri. For the purpose of this article, I will refer to the ethnic groups as the five fingers of Delta State.
Through Okowa’s emergence from North, the governorship seat completed a triangular rotation across the three senatorial districts and three out of five ethnic groups of the state. The Ijaw and the Isoko are the remaining two ethnic groups yet to produce a governor of the state. Perhaps, due to its linguistic, cultural and geographical closeness with the Urhobo, the Isoko have been less virulent than the Ijaw in the debate over which ethnic group or senatorial district should produce the next governor of the state. The muted perception is that the Isoko are more comfortable with the push by their Urhobo neighbours to rule the state again in 2023.
On the ethnic plank, the Ijaw argue that having supported four past governors of Urhobo extraction in the past namely Chiefs Ibori, Ibru , Mariere and Ejoor it would be most unfair to sidestep the group while Urhobo is awarded an unprecedented fifth slot in 2023. While the ding dong continues, leading Urhobo governorship aspirants on the PDP platform such as Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, Mr. David Edevbie, Peter Mrakpor, Festus Agas, James Aguoye, Hon. Sherriff Oborevwori and others are busy oiling their political wheels for the big battle ahead.
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