Delta 2023: Oborevwori’ll continue my administration’s performance, says Okowa

Delta State Governor and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has assured the people of the state that the party’s governorship candidate, Sheriff Oborevwori, would take his administration’s performance further if elected in the 2023 general election.

Okowa said Oborevwori had learnt a lot as the longest-serving Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and would continue with ongoing projects and programmes of his administration.

The governor said this at Obiaruku during the party’s campaigns at Ukwuani and Ethiope East Local Government Areas of the state on Tuesday.

He said: “I have known Oborevwori for many years now and he has been Speaker of the House of Assembly for six years and as the longest-serving Speaker, he has understudied our programmes and policies.

“He has learnt a lot and has assured that he would be fair to all parts of Delta and ensure that no ongoing project is abandoned in any part of the state.

“Aside ongoing projects, he will also ensure continuation of our youths and women empowerment programmes.”

Governor Okowa, who said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government had spoilt the country in all economic indices, assured that the PDP would unite the country to fight insecurity “because there is strength in unity”.

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He said a PDP administration would be willing to assist states to set up their own police systems to complement the federal police and other security agencies in fighting insecurity across the country.

“They have killed our economy such that they have borrowed over N100 trillion but we will recover and rebuild our country because we did it before in 1999.

“All our federal roads in the state are impassable; twice I wanted to intervene for the Sapele-Agbor road and they stopped us because it’s a federal road.

“But thank God that I am going to Abuja and we will ensure that all federal roads are attended to.

“The APC also destroyed our education sector with the eight-month ASUU strike that kept our children at home for so long. But throughout the period of strike, all our universities in Delta were in session.

“They were in session because we have taken care of all they needed for the educational advancement of the state.

“So, for Delta to continue on the path of progress and development, let’s vote for all candidates of the PDP,” Okowa stated.

Speaking at the rally, the immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, urged the people to vote all PDP candidates to enable Governor Okowa to become the Vice-President of the country.

He said a vote for the party would ensure proper allocation of oil resources produced from the state.

On his part, the PDP governorship candidate commended Okowa for the projects in the area, including a Technical College at Obiaruku, ongoing construction of 27 kilometres of roads with over 70 per cent completed.

Oborevwori stated that no fewer than 400 indigenes of the area had benefited from the state’s empowerment programmes.

He, however, promised that his administration would construct the Amai and Arhagba-Orogun roads, stressing that he would be equitable to all parts of Delta and would not abandon any ongoing project across the state.

The campaign rallies witnessed massive defections from the APC and Labour Party, with former LP Delta North senatorial candidate, Ebuwa Kelvin, and Alex Imarah, among the defectors.

The Star