How June 12 protest forced me out to Netherlands at 23 with only $5 in my pocket, no passport, no visa
• I took N/Delta environmental challenges to Dutch, European parliaments, Italian Senate, United Nation plenary session
•Can’t imagine some Nigerians are still supporting APC
Comrade Sunny Ofehe is the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives
Party (YPP) in Delta State for the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The circumstances of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election forced him out of Nigeria at 23 years old to the Netherlands where he went without an international passport, visa and had only $5 in his pocket. That was almost 27 years ago. In this exclusive interview with Saturday Vanguard in Abuja, he shares his pains and gains, saying he has seen the world’s best in political leadership and is ready to put his State on the world map if elected to lead.
You are running against two big political parties, the PDP and the APC and I do know that your state is predominantly PDP. Your party, the YPP is just coming up. How do you intend to wrestle with these people to win the gubernatorial election next year?
Well, first and foremost, as a leader if you want to serve your people, you need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself a whole lot of questions. I want to serve my people, do I have what it takes to serve? You don’t look at the party. You don’t look at the platform where you want to run. I don’t know how other politicians do it. So, that is why I said I am not the usual politician because I don’t have any godfather. I didn’t grow through the ranks of the political structure to now make people say, okay, well, we are not surprised that he is running for governorship. But then, you look at yourself and say do I have the capacity?
Kindly read my interview as published in today’s Nigerian widest circulating newspaper The Saturday Vanguard.
#FixDelta has become a momentum in Delta State. The people want change and YPP provides that change through my Servant-Leadership.