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The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Otega Emerhor, has said he remains the candidate adopted by the Urhobo ethnic nationality for the February 28 governorship election.

In a statement on Friday, Emerhor said the Chief Tuesday Onoge-led leadership of the Urhobo Progress Union was the authentic leadership of the union.

The Onoge-led faction of UPU had last Sunday endorsed Emerhor after it broke off from the Joe Omene-led leadership of UPU that endorsed the Labour Party candidate, Chief Great Ogboru.

Emerhor said the truth about the Omenes groups endorsement of Ogboru was that they were working for the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, an arrangement he said was worked out by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.

The APC candidate further said Ogboru s alliance with the UPU and Omene was a well crafted political strategy to divide the Urhobo votes so as to enable Okowa of the PDP to win the governorship election.

He urged the people of Delta Central and Urhobo nation in general to support the APC so as to actualise the Urhobo dream of electing him (Emerhor) as the next governor of Delta State come February 28.

He warned that should Urhobos fail to dislodge the Ogboru-Omene political scheming, the Urhobo nation would be marginalised politically for another eight years.

He noted that the PDP government, which deliberately neglected the Urhobo and Delta Central in development, government appointments, both at the state and federal levels, was the same party Omene and Ogboru had aligned with to deprive Urhobos the opportunity of producing the next governor.

Emerhor said the APC was the only party that had the winning structure in Delta State with the capacity to defeat the PDP in the forth coming general elections, adding that the Labour Party had no presidential candidate with a weak structure that could not survive the test of time in this years general elections.

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Urhobo union faction working for PDP -Emerhor