Delta gov candidate, Omo-Agege makes promises to Ijaw, Itsekiri communities

If elected governor of Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressive Congress’ candidate for governor, will complete the Koko-Ugbenu Road and the Koko Township Sports Stadium, which the incumbent PDP-led administration had long abandoned.

In order to address the decades-long underdevelopment of the Ijaw and Itsekiri communities of the Warri North Local Government Area, Omo-Agege also pledged to create a tertiary institution for the Itsekiri nation and upmarket hospitals in the aforementioned communities.

Omo-Agege, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, while lamenting the absence of a tertiary institution in Itsekiri territory and a functional hospital in Warri North LGA, even though one of their sons was the former governor of the state, promised to arrest and address the underdevelopment of the area by past and present PDP governments.

He called on the people of Warri North to vote for their son-in-law Bola Ahmed Tinubu who had promised to dredge the Escavos bar to enable big vessels to access the Warri, Koko and Burutu ports, in order to make the ports functional and create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths.

Omo-Agege, who stated this during the APC ward-to-ward campaign at Koko in Warri North LGA, urged the people to come out in large numbers and vote for the APC, assuring them that their votes will count because the era where electoral materials are hijacked and taken to somewhere else to thumbprint is over with the introduction of the BVAS machine.

“The Koko-Ugbenu road that Uduaghan could not complete as a secretary to the state government for four years, as a governor for eight years and could not influence Governor Okowa to complete for seven and a half years will be completed by me if elected governor.

“The Koko stadium that the construction commenced in 2008 has been abandoned by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and its abandonment tolerated by your son, former Governor Uduaghan. I, your son, will complete it.

“For our pregnant women and nursing mothers who have no access to healthcare facilities in riverine areas, despite having two doctors as former governors, I commit to you, just as I did in Egbokoda, that I will build a functional hospital to address your medical needs if I am elected as the governor come next year.”

While lamenting the underdevelopment of Warri North, Omo-Agege stated that Koko does not resemble the seat of a local government that has produced a former governor of the state. He added that if, he, their second son, is elected governor in February 2023, he will make up for what their first son, the former governor, failed to do for Koko and Warri North.

When it comes to 2023, the Itsekiri nation would be extremely lucky to have two of their sons, Bola Tinubu and Ovie Omo-Agege, serve as president and governor, according to Otega Emerhor, the founding leader of the APC in Delta State.

Emerhor, therefore, urged the Itsekiri nation to see the election of Tinubu, their son-in-law, and Omo-Agege, who is from Koko maternally, as their project by mobilising and voting for them and all other APC candidates.

Speaking also, the Delta South senatorial candidate of the party, Joel Onowakpor Thomas, in his remark, said that the Koko he used to know as one of the business hubs in Delta is today a shadow of itself due to years of neglect.

He added that if Tinubu, Omo-Agege, himself and other APC candidates are voted into office, they will ensure the construction of the Koko-Ogheye Road and turn Koko into a gateway city.