By Ochei Media Team
Power has a way of humiliating those who abuse it. What just happened in the United States and in Israel is not distant news it is a preview of what awaits Delta State in 2027.
In America, the Republicans were swept off their feet. Despite all the antics, the propaganda, and the campaigns of calumny, the people spoke. Trust Donald Trump: he said if he had been on the ballot Republicans would have won. Unfortunately, he might not be aware how unpopular he has become with the Republicans in the past six years. He paid dearly for it.
Even Vice President JD Vance himself has admitted it: Trump’s unnecessary warmongering, the negative influence of the Israeli lobby, the disastrous attack on Iran, and the unending Israeli-Palestinian conflict triggered a global oil and energy crisis whose economic toll is still crushing families from Texas to Agbor. The voters punished them for it.
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, once thought invincible, is now facing political uncertainty. The ballot has spoken there too.
The lesson is simple and brutal: when leaders lose touch with the people, no amount of spin can save them.
Now bring that lesson home to Delta.
Okowa is scared. Any keen observer who watched his speech at the APC campaign rally in Oleh saw it clearly. This is a man speaking from hindsight, a man haunted by 2023. He is not just asking his party to win he is begging them to “win big.” Why the obsession with margins? Why is a man who claims to have seen a “huge crowd” in Oleh still not confident of victory in 2027?
Because Okowa knows the numbers. He knows what happened in his own backyard when he was sitting Governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP.
Let us refresh his memory with the facts from the February 2023 Presidential Election the graphics don’t lie:
In Delta North Senatorial District, the home base of Okowa, Labour Party delivered a political tsunami that shattered the ruling PDP:
Aniocha North: LP 11,678 – PDP 3,783 – APC 1,146
Aniocha South: LP 14,208 – PDP 4,672 – APC 1,686
Oshimili North: LP 14,929 – PDP 4,796 – APC 1,668
Oshimili South: LP 40,085 – PDP 2,790 – APC 894
Ika South: LP 17,868 – PDP 7,485 – APC 3,290
Ndokwa West: LP 12,889 – PDP 8,760 – APC 3,840
Ukwuani: LP 11,239 – PDP 6,713 – APC 2,956
Ndokwa East: LP 7,756 – PDP 5,996 – APC 3,752
Even in Ika North East, Okowa’s own LGA, where PDP managed 16,696 against LP’s 8,980, the margin was a mere shadow of his expected dominance.
In 8 out of 9 Local Governments in Delta North, Labour won with landslide, humiliating margins. Oshimili South alone gave Labour a 37,000 vote lead over PDP. Aniocha South, Oshimili North, Ika South all double and triple-fold defeats. This was not an election. It was a revolt.
That was 2023, when Nigerians were merely angry. What do you think 2027 will be, when millions are disillusioned, impoverished, and exhausted by bad leadership?
Okowa understands the body language of the people. He knows millions of Deltans and Nigerians are marking the calendar for 2027 to pay back those who orchestrated hunger, insecurity and arrogance in power. He knows that no amount of vote-buying, financial inducement, rented crowds, media hype, and last-minute cajolery can change the socio-economic reality on the ground.
That is why the growing influence of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, is giving the ruling camp sleepless nights. Especially in Delta North, where Rt. Hon. Engr. Victor Ochei Esq, FNSE, is not just popular but gaining ground every single day. His influence as an opposition figure has become a movement.
The ruling camp tried to diminish him. It failed. They tried to demean his rising profile it crumbled like a park of cards. Now they have resorted to name-calling: “Mosquitoes,” “arrogance,” “desperation,” “betrayal.” The old trick of giving a dog a bad name to hang it has failed woefully. Deltans are wiser. They can see dignity, capacity, and genuine connection when it stands before them.
What happened in the US after the midterms and what is happening in Israel today is the same wind blowing towards Delta North. The people are ready to speak again louder, clearer, and with bigger margins.
2023 was a warning shot. 2027 will be the real tsunami. And this time, it will not just sweep through Delta North. It will reclaim it.
Okowa can feel it. That is why he is shouting “win big” in Oleh. Because deep down, he knows they are about to lose big.
–Ochei Media Team
