On the backwardness of the state in terms of development, Omo-Agege decried the poor leadership system of the Delta State Governor whom he described as incompetent, noting that while other States in the Niger Delta and elsewhere are celebrating shiny milestones in infrastructural development, human capacity development, healthcare, education, sustainable economic development, good governance, and improved institutions, the people of Delta State are shell-shocked; benumbed by the sheer audacity of Okowa and his co-travellers as they daily bring the state to its knees. Even sadder is fact that the governor has been going around borrowing with reckless abandon, making the State one of the most indebted in Nigeria even with its monumental FAAC allocation and 13% derivation revenue as an oil producing State.
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from Delta State University, Abraka. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience of reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experience in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
He said N25 billion out of the N30 billion ‘Bridging Finance’ loan already accessed by the state government had been deployed into some ongoing projects while the remaining N5 billion was channelled into the payment of pensioners in the Bureau for State Pensions and the Local Government Pensions Bureau.
According to him, 2,500 Artisans have so far been empowered for year 2022, emphasising that the number was doubled for next year because of the determined effort of his administration to kick poverty and unemployment out of the state
“APC have credible candidate that will deliver for their people, we are going there to work for the people. We have five candidates that will be voted for. Delta State has been ruled by opposition for too many years but we are coming to say this is how it should be done in Delta State”. he said.
By Godwin-Maria Utuedoye The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has told the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to do better than he did while he governed the state. Obi, while reacting to recent bashing he had received for Soludo said since he (Soludo) is a professor he should be able to do better in governing Anambra State. Obi said this on Tuesday at the 2022 Lagos Business School Alumni Conference, in Lagos.Soludo had recently called out Obi saying his investments in Anambra was next to nothing and on Monday he added that Obi would not…
According to him, “information reaching us indicates that the Warri South local government council Chairman, Dr Michael Tidi, has given an order closing routes leading to the Warri Township Stadium with effect from Monday, November 14 through Monday, November 28.
On the Muslim/Muslim tickets, Rt. Hon. Oborevwori said that; “Delta State is not in support of the Muslim/Muslim tickets of the APC and our people should vote for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for President and Vice-President respectively. They will rescue our Country from APC that has collapsed our Country. Politics is not a do-or-die affair. God gives power. We are the winning team and you do not change a winning team. Please, vote for us, vote for PDP all-the-way
Deputy State Chairman of the party, Val Arenyeka urged the people to send the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC packing at Aso Villa, adding that they have continued to impoverish Nigerians with their failed economic policies, insecurity, and mismanagement of the nation’s cherished diversity.
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According to him; “I am a Pan Deltan, a unifier, and a man with excessive local content. I am determined to take the ongoing ward-to-Ward campaigns to the 270 Wards in the State. I want to connect with all Deltans in the 270 Wards and at the end of it, the campaigns will be taken to the Local Government Headquarters. Am coming to serve Deltans and so there must be a connection between me and the people”.