Delta 2023: Omo-Agege, Nwaoboshi were in Asaba on Saturday, check where they visited, what they said and what followed
Nigeria’s deputy senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has said that by 2023 the ruling national party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will sweep all the states in the South South, dethroning all the states controlled by the PDP and claiming them for the APC.
Senator Omo-Agege told journalists that as the 2023 approaches, there will be a tsunami which will sweep throughout the zone, adding that “most of the Egyptians you see today in the zone you will not see them anymore.”
The deputy senate President was responding to questions from journalists when he alongside Senator Peter Nwaoboshi inspected the Illah road in Oshimili North local government area of Delta state.
The road is undergoing resurfacing following a delegation of Illah elders who visited him in Abuja and pleading for his intervention in the resurfacing of the road.
He said what the Senators are doing for people in the zone, the infrastructural projects, human capital programmes, and others the senators are doing for the zone will make a statement on the day of election. He said it is not just human capital programmes but the impact the programmes are making on the lives of the people.
“We have done a lot in the South South zone. We will soon mobilize to Delta South. The question for 2023 is what did you do for us. I’m very confident that come 2023 APC will sweep Delta state and South South. You can take that to the bank.”
On the resurfacing of the road, he said in the next one week the rehabilitation will have been completed, expressing delight in the work so far done by the contracting firm.
He said the Illah community elders sent a delegation to him in Abuja over the dilapidated nature of the road, a development which made him to discuss with Senator Nwaoboshi who is Senate Committee Chairman on the Niger Development Commission (NDDC).
He said he approached the federal ministry of works which approved the project leading to the rehabilitation and the construction of the bridge. He expressed gratitude to the minister of works, Babatunde Fashola for speeding up the project.
He assured that as Deputy Senate President, he will do same to other zones in the state of he is called to assist in whatever capacity.
He told journalists that he won 68 votes to emerge deputy senate President, adding that he was voted for a number of Senators hence he will listen to as many as call on him for whatever form of assistance possible.
Senator Nwaoboshi, who represents Delta North, said he enjoyed working with deputy senate President Omo-Agege. “We knew ourselves before getting to the senate. He is a food man. He understands that we are in the Senate to work together for our state. We don’t play politics when we meet.”
The people of Illah community were happy to receive the Deputy Senate President and Nwaoboshi. They assured him that at the appropriate time they will play whatever role needed for them to the DSP.
