APC Horse Trading
Yesterday the APC stakeholders meeting was held in Government House, Asaba.
Two events stole the show, the late arrival of Senator Ovie Omo Agege. The second one was the open spat between Omo Agege and party chairman Elder Omeni Sobotie.
The distinguished senator refused to shake the party chairman despite the persuasion of the state governor.
This shows that hatred and bitterness in the party runs deep.
And this was the message of Omo Agege, politics of inclusiveness and integration.
Two casualties are likely to emerge in the party before the conduct of governorship primaries.
They are Elder Omeni Sobotie and Sir Monday Onyeme.
It is not clear to all APC members that the party chairman is no longer the choice of old APC members especially the Omo Agege faction.
For real integration to take place, a new party chairman must come.
Secondly, the days of Onyeme as deputy governor are numbered.
If Omo Agege cannot be the state governor, his group would want their representative to be the next deputy governor.
Uneasy calm pervades the APC.
@@@@@@@@@@
Impeachment at the council level
The councillors and council chairmen are beating the drums of war and in superiority contest.
In plain language, councillors in three local government areas have issued impeachment notice to their chairmen.
It started with Oshimili North LGA and moved to Bomadi LGA. It berthed in Ughelli North and as you read this story, the councillors are in hiding.
The Pond News understands that the cause of the impeachment notice is the public fund laced with larceny.
If the councillors were talking of accountability and transparency, most Deltans would support them.
Both the councillors and council chairmen are guilty because the fallout is about sharing formula.
Most councillors only go to the secretariat when the the monthly allocations come from Abuja.
Same with the council chairmen.
The good news is that the State House of Assembly in its wisdom has refused to act on the petition of the councillors.
The ball is now in the court of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori as leader of the party to intervene.
Further more, the journalists should also focus on the activities of the grassroots government.
There is the elevated political argument that if the local council could perform half of its duties, it would lessen the burden of governance for the state government.
@@@@@@@@@@
Waste Management Board and Window Dressing
During the ground breaking ceremony of the Agbor Flyover bridge, the officials of Delta State Waste Management Board performed special sanitation exercise there.
The aim according to the board was to make the Agbor Uromi junction pleasant to the eyes and visitors.
It is ridiculously absurd that any agency charged with clearing of waste would wait for visitors before doing its statutory duty.
This is window dressing, pure and simple.
The Delta State Waste Management Board to be modest has outlived its usefulness.
The governor should constitute a new board.
The board if care is not taken shall compromise the integrity of the MORE Agenda.
For a government that is scout ready to deliver first class infrastructures to the people, the waste management board is just wasting away as refuse continues to pile in the state.
The Pond News may not report correctly what is happening in other major towns but we can confidently report what is happening in Asaba, the state capital.
Drive around major residential areas, you see piles of uncollected refuse in front of beautiful houses.
Investigations show that officials of waste management board do not come regularly to cart away the refuse.
Members of such households pay for the evacuation of the refuse.
Even more annoying is the behaviour of private sector participants approved by the agency.
There is something the board is not telling Deltans.
It is not too late for Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to inject new blood into the management of the board.
