Delta State Governor, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has noted that the security challenges in the state are just a phase and will fade away.
The governor disclosed this when he received on courtesy visit, the state executive of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), led by the state chairman, Bishop Kingsley Enakhireri at Government House, Asaba, yesterday, insisting that the state was peaceful despite few security challenges in some parts of the state.
While assuring that his administration is committed to the security of lives and property in the state, he called for more prayers to enable the administration resolve some of the seeming intractable challenges bedeviling the state.
“On the issue of security, we are doing our best. We want to assure Deltans that this is just a phase and it will come and go. Continue to pray for us while we will continue to serve the people.
“In section 14(2b) of the 1999 constitution, it states that, ‘the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government’ and we are doing that,” he added.
On the ongoing protests in the country, Governor Oborevwori flayed a section of the opposition for trying to take credit for the peaceful disposition of protesters in the state, adding that it was a collective effort of all stakeholders especially prayers of the church.
“I want to thank the PFN for the role it played at this trying times of a national protest. We can see that the state is peaceful. People were expecting violence like the way it was during ENDSARS.
“I was watching one of the TV stations when somebody said that they made the peaceful ambience in Delta State during this period of national protest possible. How? When people talk at times, they talk out of ignorance. Our fathers of faith prayed and I have been in this state since, I didn’t go out of the state, in order to monitor the protest and we are monitoring it.
“The Civil Society organisations and other groups understand and said this time, they are not going to protest. They know that if they go into it that people will hijack it. So, people should not come to take glory. We return the glory to God Almighty.
“Some of these people talking do not even stay in the state, they don’t know what is happening,” the governor added.
Earlier, Bishop Enakhireri said they visited to pledge their unflinching support to the administration of Governor Oborevwori and thank him for the wisdom in managing the affairs of the state, particularly in handling the ongoing national protests in the country.
