Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Nigerian deputy senate president and Delta APC governorship candidate, has said that with the enormous resources available to Delta, the state is far below where it ought to be in the comity of states in Nigeria.
Omo-Agege spoke on Thursday during a press conference with Delta journalists to begin his governorship campaigns in the state. The deputy senate president told journalists that his government is set to liberate the state from the shackles of the ruling PDP.
He described the PDP governorship candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori, who is speaker of the state house of assembly as a bad omen for the people of the oil rich state. He called on all Deltans to reject leaders who will not be independent of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
He told journalists who gathered at the party’s governorship campaign secretariat that Okowa’s government since inception on May 29, 2015 has gulped not less than N2.8trillion. He added that the administration has spent such huge amount of money with nothing to show in the state.
When compared with other states in the country, Omo-Agege said Delta is beset with non-infrastructure, failed projects with the Stephen Keshi stadium which would have killed a lot of Deltans but were saved by the grace of God.
He said Okowa’s government has brought Deltans to their kneels just as he said that Governor Okowa has plunged the state into heavy indebtedness with continuous borrowing but no Infrastructure to show.
He said Delta’s money is now being used to fund Okowa’s ill-fated ambition, an ambition which he said run contrary to the wishes of the people of Southern Nigeria.
He described the PDP governorship candidate as incompetent, noting that if allowed to lead Delta, his administration will be a disaster to Deltans.
He said the PDP candidate has no mind of his own, saying Oborevwori’s administration if allowed would be a third term for Governor Okowa in disguise.
He told journalists in Asaba that Deltans are suffering because of Okowa’s bad leadership.
According to him, at the time when the entire nation agreed to shift presidency to Southern Nigeria, Governor Okowa traded the wishes of the entire Southern Nigeria for his vice presidential candidacy.
Answering a question on the division in the state APC, he said his party is not divided, noting: “Anyone who thinks APC is divided is wrong. After the primaries, we have all come together to ensure Okowa’s government is dethroned.”
He said Olorogun Otega Emerhor, founder of APC in Delta, is back with him, Victor Ochei, former speaker of state assembly and director at NINASA is also with him. He added that only one who went to APGA with the belief that every four years the governorship belongs to him that has left the party.
He said rather than think APC is divided, it is PDP that is fragmented into factions with 70 percent which constitute the intellectual group under Delta Unity Group while others which he described as the agberos led by Michael Diden and Askia Ogieh constitute th Delta People’s Vanguard.
