Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has said it would be wrong for Delta residents to vote against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election, citing his family ties to the state.

Speaking on Arise Television on Tuesday, Oborevwori said Tinubu is the only potential presidential candidate with a direct affiliation to Delta State.

According to the governor, Tinubu’s relationship with the state through his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, makes him a natural choice for Delta voters.

“Bola Ahmed Tinubu, among the candidates that will emerge, is the only one that has affiliation to Delta State. People don’t even know that. Delta people are wise now,” he said.

Oborevwori described the President as an in-law to the state and argued that voting against him would amount to going against family interests.

Oborevwori also pointed to the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu’s reported ties to the Itsekiri ethnic group, expressing confidence that members of the group would support the President.

“The man is an in-law here. So, it will be evil to vote against your in-law. It’s a family affair.

“The people in Delta, they are saying that this is their own. So it’s not before they deceived them. Now they can’t deceive them again,” he said.

Jude Imagwe, former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, has said that his principal is neither power-hungry nor power-drunk.

Imagwe made this statement during an interview on News Central Television.

He was reacting to the Taminu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declaring Jonathan as its presidential candidate ahead of the next year’s general elections.

The ex-presidential aide said there is no indication that Jonathan received, completed or submitted any nomination forms related to a 2027 presidential bid.

“One thing is clear. That is the fact that I do not think former President Jonathan is power-hungry or power-drunk.

“If he was power-hungry, he would not have relinquished power in 2015. I also do not think that President Jonathan is desperate to return back to Aso Rock because clearly he hasn’t forgotten anything there.

“I also know clearly that Jonathan is where he is today through several sacrifices, through commitment, through discipline, through resilience, and above all, through humility.

“But the unfortunate situation is that certain persons that have masqueraded themselves with dangerous ambition to perpetually want to remain on the airspace of public conversation as regards 2027, have chosen to begin to drag an innocent gentleman’s name who, for reasons too, has still not said anything about it.

“What is clear is that there is nobody that gets a nomination form that does not have his or her signature on it, and such instances are ceremonial.

“There is no pictorial evidences that suggest that any of these documents were done by the former president,” he said.

Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, says they saw the exit of former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, stressing that he cannot be trusted.

Oborevwori made this statement on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.

Recall that Omo-Agege recently dumped the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, after losing at the senatorial primary election.

Reacting, the governor said, “We were aware of his exit, and that was why he was not serious in the context of the primaries, because he never consulted anybody, he never consulted me, he never called leaders.

“His departure is not a threat to us because APC is a big party.

“President Bola Tinubu is my biggest project and we in Delta are solidly behind him. Delta people were deceived earlier but not anymore.

“I can tell you categorically that no Delta person will vote against Tinubu. So we are not bothered about anybody leaving our party,” he said.