DELTA STATE IS BACKWARDS AND SENATOR OVIE OMO-AGEGE’S ‘EDGE TO BAND’ AGENDA IS OUR INTELLIGENT, BOLD AND INNOVATIVE ANSWER.

 

Last month, precisely the 24th day of August, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu flagged off the construction of “what will be the largest Food Security Systems and Central Logistics Park in sub-Saharan Africa”. 

Sitting on a massive 1.2 million square meters of land in Ketu, the park is a key part of the Lagos State Government 5-year (2021–2025) Agricultural and Food Systems Road Map. It is conceptualised to “create direct wealth for more than 5 million traders in the agri-value chain, while guaranteeing uninterrupted food supplies to more than 10 million Lagosians for at least 90 days, in a period of scarcity.”

The Lagos food security park also potentially holds immense direct and indirect employment opportunities and other productive human engagements that should help the State to better manage and overcome some teething social challenges. It is a bold initiative that speaks to the Spirit of Excellence that Lagos State prides itself for.

At this juncture, let us turn to Delta State. At the objective level, is there anything or even an idea with the semblance of the Lagos food security system in today’s Delta? Does Delta rival Lagos in any particular area of public governance? If not, why? After all Delta is arguably one of the richest oil states in the Federation. 

Simply put, a broad answer to the questions posed above is that our Delta State of today is just not forward looking, not innovative and awfully degenerative. These are very annoying descriptions because they completely run against the core Delta spirit of world-class excellence championed by our forebearers - Chief Mukoro Mowoe, Chief TEA Salubi, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Olorogun Michael Ibru, Chief Alfred Rewane, Olorogun Felix Ibru, Chief Sunny Odogwu, Olorogun Daniel Okumagba, Justice James Omo-Agege, Chief Demas Akpore, Chief Aniwhewhe Wanogho, etc. 

Today, public governance in Delta is largely and most regrettably manned by a large population of primitive and improperly educated minds who have no regards for our traditional leadership values. Certified touts without any respectable capacity to operate on modern governance platforms or take on big ticket issues of our time. 

Looked at in the mirror of innovative modern governance, Delta is just a laughing stock. And His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is the chief priest of Delta’s shrine of ceaseless governance rot, malfeasance and ‘agbekpo’ undertakings. 

Without question, Okowa has sunk our dear State into bottomless and suffocating mediocrity, and it is alarming that the fast-depleting Okowa PDP is arrogantly telling us to expect ‘MORE’? More of its pervasive criminal failings or what exactly?

Thankfully, the ‘MORE’ joke will never happen. It is nothing but political arrogance on steroids initiated by a tyrannical mindset and advertised with sheer shenanigans. It will be stopped at the ballot and by all means necessary and within the prescriptions of our electoral laws. 

Our people are rich with the revolutionary electoral will and commitment, capacity, and resources to finally send PDP and its over two decades of extreme waywardness to Rest In Peace in a political Golgotha. 

For this, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s ‘EDGE to BAND’ agenda is ready to breathe sustainable world-class excellence into the veins of governance in Delta. Bold initiatives that will compete healthily with and dare to surpass what Lagos offers. Excellence in modern human capital and infrastructural development and management. Measurable excellence in all spheres as clearly articulated in the Omo-Agege EDGE Manifesto - a comprehensive development document that has no rival in the present electoral season in Delta. 

When the campaigns start, we will give Deltans all the tools necessary for them to decisively separate the wheat from the chaff. This is a firm promise of the EDGE agenda. A promise owed to good conscience for the sake of a better society and the judgment of posterity. The New Delta is near.