By Onwuegbuzie Rachael
In continuation of the commissioning of projects, executed by the Okowa Administration in Delta State, the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, will on Friday, October 28, 2022 commission the NUJ Press Centre in Asaba, the state capital.
The Commissioner for Information ,Mr Charles Aniagwu, stated this when he spoke to reporters yesterday.
“With this, journalists will now have a befitting place of their own without being embarrassed by landlords again,” Aniagwu enthused.
Aniagwu said that the cenre had four furnished rooms with attached facilities where members could go and relax whenever they visited Asaba and could not travel back, adding that it would be managed by the EXCO of the union.
Aniagwu said that the 2023 politics would not in any way affect the promises made to Deltans by the Okowa Administration, adding that the new Press Centre in the Government House, Asaba was also ready and may likely be used when next there would be briefing in the Government House.
Speaking on the issue of flooding, he said that flood had ravaged 19 Local Government areas out of the 25 in the state, adding that the remaining 6 had been affected minimally.
“The State Orientation Bureau have had course to visit a number of this communities in the last two months, following the advisory of the Nigerian Meterological Agency (NiMet), adding that the move had helped to relocate the affected people to safer grounds.
He said “that is why we do not have the kind of fatalities being recorded else where.”
He said that 10 camps were fully functional in the state with the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and a number of other critical stakeholders were attending to the flood victims in the state.
“Th state governor has also visited some of the camps and relief materials had been made available to the flood victims. It is important that we are doing this not on the ground of politics, but because we care for our people’s well-being,” he added.
On the attitude of the APC Gubernatorial Candidate in the state, Senator Ovie Omo Agege, he said that the state government had advised him to stick to the truth, saying that it would not be wise to play on the intelligence of Deltans, even as he said that “he could not ride to occupy the Government House here in Asaba on the alter of lies.
“Governance these days cannot be carried out the way some person’s thought it has been done in the past. In 2015, the APC rode on the mantle of change which unfortunately was a total lie.
“For Senator Omo-Agege to say that Delta state had engaged in borrowing is not true. Those who are professionals in borrowing is the APC- led Federal Government where he is number two in the red carpet chamber, where these funds are being approved arbitrarily to the extent that several millions of dollars had been borrowed, even when they have not translated to the life of people.
“Our unborn children are now debtors in Nigeria on account of APC borrowing,” he said.
According to Aniagwu, “the reason the state government wanted to take the bridging loan was to enable us tackle the issue of accrued money of pensioners and also to address the issue of some ongoing projects in the state.”
He stated that plans were on ground to commission the Ogheye Market in Warri North which, he said, “is the best of its kind, built in the centre of the ocean to serve our people and even Ondo people.”
He added that “the peace we enjoyed today in the state was on account that this administration was able to reach out to even people in far most communities.”
The commissioner said that the Agbharo/Origin Road which happened to be in Sen. Omo-Agege home area was also constructed by the Okowa Administration, adding that “if he says this administration have not done anything, it means that he does not visit home, nor interface with his people because they would have informed him that they now drive on a good road.
” We will not allow Omo-Agege to come and mess up with our state and I know that Deltans will look on the part of PDP come 2023 general election,” he added.
