Deputy Senate President and the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Ovie Omo-Agege has said the electorate will punish Governor Ifeanyi Okowa over non-performance in the state in the forthcoming presidential election. Okowa is the running mate to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Omo-Agege stated this at St George’s College in Obinoba community in Delta North during the flag off of his gubernatorial campaign.
According to Omo-Agege, the poor performance of Okowa in Delta State, a state he said received N4.2 trillion in the last seven years, and the division within the PDP has already given APC victory ahead of the polls.
Omo-Agege said the people of Delta State are now determined to ensure that the APC win all the three senatorial districts and the governorship poll in order to punish Okowa.
“Come February 25, we have everything that it takes to chase Okowa out,” Omo-Agege said, adding that, “We will win them.”
“How many are there that we can’t beat them? We have the chance to punish Okowa in the ballot. We will chase them away,” Omo-Agege said, while receiving 26 leaders of a breakaway PDP member, Delta Unity Group (DUG) who joined the APC with over 25,000 of their members.
“We have the chance to win the three Senate seats. If I became governor, no senatorial district would be discriminated against. We will ensure there is equity.
“We will apply our resources judiciously and fairly. Our schools will no longer be kindergarten schools.
“The struggle is to make sure we chase Okowa away and stop them from coming to power. We mean well for our people and for our state. Everyone has equal power in our party,” Omo-Agege said, adding that his time has reached being the governor.”
“When your time reaches, God will direct everything. Who will have believed two years before now that strong men in the PDP will join us in the APC? It can only be God. Let me thank our brothers who have seen what we’ve seen longtime ago.
“This is not the Delta of our dream. N4.2 trillion have come to Delta State in the last seven years but nothing tangible to show for it.
“We received more allocation than Rivers state but Wike has turned Rivers state into a construction site. Pension and gratuities have not been paid since 2015. What crime did they commit? Okowa will not pay them but he has the money to pay for his vice presidential campaign.
“As we are here, minimum wage that was approved for Nigeria, in the North, states who don’t even receive allocation like Delta are paying minimum wage. Okowa is not paying minimum wage but went ahead to increase school fees.
“Look at the state of our roads. The major roads we have in this state are in a state of decay. It’s Wike that alerted us that Buhari gave them N260 billions of naira but where did the money go? Omo-Agege asked.
A leader of the Delta Unity Group (DUG) who is also a former speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, and former member of the House of Representatives Olisah Imegwu, said they will do their best to deliver APC in the state.
Also, a former speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Monday Igbuya, said that DUG has come into APC to help develop Delta.
According to Igbuya, they joined the APC to put Delta State in the process of development as it happened during the days of James Ibori and called on the people of the state to ensure they get their PVCs ready.
Former minister of special duties, Godswill Orubebe, who is also the director general of the Omo-Agege campaign council, said he was elated with the support and the revolution that took place in Delta State by the DUG.
He said after Ibori, governance collapsed in Delta State but assured that Omo-Agege will bring the state back on the track of development.
He said the leadership of DUG is coming to APC to put things right and ensure they win the February 25, 2023 gubernatorial election.
