Senator James Manager (Delta South) has said recent happenings in the Delta State chapter of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “is drowning and dying gradually.”
Manager described the recent judgement of the Federal High Court, which disqualified Chief Sheriff Oborevwori as governorship candidate as a death knell for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He
In a statement posted on his verified Facebook page at the weekend, he called for caution among party loyalists, stressing that he would not do anything that would further exacerbate the problems for the party and the future of Deltans because Delta is PDP and PDP is Delta”
Manager said,“I want to react to a trending story on a section of the media that I initiated a court case against one of the PDP governorship aspirants in Delta State. The purported story sponsored by well-known political merchants is a cesspool of lies and a journalism junkyard from where stories are fabricated against leading political lights.
It is another desperate attempt to drag my humble self into the mud-sliding and regrettable- avoidable political quagmire we all find ourselves in Delta PDP today.
“I have spent almost 30 years in this business of politics and these stupendous insinuations being sponsored and peddled in the media by these political jobbers are not my modus operandi. My style on matters like this over the years are different. The story is fake and nothing could be farther from the truth.
“As the pioneer state chairman of the party and by extension the father of PDP in Delta State, I would not do anything to further exacerbate the problems for the party and the future of Deltans because Delta is PDP and PDP is Delta. I’m greatly disturbed by the recent happenings at the party today.
“I would not feign ignorance as the party is drowning and dying gradually. If nobody is seeing it, I am seeing it and I am also feeling it greatly. I would have initiated certain preliminary actions pro bono but because I’m directly involved as a contender, I’m constrained. I want to be extremely careful and cautious with suggestions and interventions.”
Going forward, Manager said prayers have to be said for the party to be revived. He prayed God not to allow those who are inside and outside the PDP who have all used its platform to acquire the big names they have today to destroy it. May that day never come, Amen!”
