By Victor Lewis
The people of Ndokwa nation on Delta State may soon roll out the drums in celebration as they have been assured in concrete terms of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Assent to the Federal University Agriculture, Aboh whose Bill has been passed by both Chambers of the National Assembly.
The Deputy President of Senate and APC Governorship candidate for Delta State in the 2023 election, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who gave this assurance when the State APC ward-to-ward campaign train visited Aboh, headquarters of Ndokwa East Local Government Area recently, disclosed that the bill is already waiting for the President’s assent.
While lamenting the neglect which the Ndokwa nation had suffered over the years in spite of its enormous contributions to the development of the State and the federation through oil and gas and agriculture, the APC Guber flagbearer noted that the siting of the institution in the area was not a misplaced priority.
He reminded that the Ndokwa nation was the only federal Constituency in the State without a higher institution, adding that the incoming APC government in the State will put an end to the age-long neglect and marginalization of the area.
Omo-Agege further berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government for abandoning the all-important Beneku Bridge which connects several oil producing communities in Ndokwa East Local Government, assuring that the completion of that bridge would be given top priority when he becomes the governor of the State as from 2023.
“I want to tell you that all of the punishment and wickedness visited upon the people of Ndokwa East by Okowa will stop on the day of the election. I am very pained anytime I think about Ndokwa East Local Government Area and see your sufferings and the amount of neglect. I share tears.
“I know how much Ndokwa East Local Government contributes to the economy of Nigeria and I know how much comes to Delta State because of Ndokwa East contribution. And I wonder what the people of Ndokwa East did to Okowa that he has decided to treat you with so much hatred?
“Just one day alone, Okowa and his stooge established three universities, no one was established in Ndokwa nation because of the hatred he has against the people of Ndokwa nation,” he said.
Speaking further, Omo-Agege lamented that “the most painful part is that his stooge, who is the speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly presided on the day these three universities were established. He couldn’t even ask Okowa to place one in Ndokwa nation because two of them have so much hatred for Ndokwa people.
“I want to tell you that all of the punishment and wickedness visited upon the people of Ndokwa East by Okowa will stop on the day of the election. I am very pained anytime I think about Ndokwa East local government area and see your sufferings and the amount of neglect, I shed tears.
“I know how much Ndokwa East local government contributes to the economy of Nigeria and I know how much comes to Delta State because of Ndokwa East contribution. And I wonder what the people of Ndokwa East did to Okowa that he has decided to treat you with so much hatred?
“Just one day alone, Okowa and his stooge established three universities, no one was established in Ndokwa Nation because of the hatred he has against the people of Ndokwa Nation.”
“And the most painful part is that his stooge, who is the speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly presided on the day these three universities were established. He couldn’t even ask Okowa to place one in Ndokwa Nation because two of them have so much hatred for Ndokwa people.”
“But let me assure you that the suffering and neglect are over; and that is why I as your son working with your Senator Peter Nwaoboshi came together and we ensured that the bill for the University of Agriculture is established in Aboh.
“And as I speak to you, that bill establishing the University of Agriculture has been passed by the Senate and House of Representatives; and we are going to make sure President Muhammadu Buhari signs it.”
Earlier, the President General of Aboh Development Union, Chief John Ajie Ogwu, had described Omo-Agege as a bonafide Aboh son whom he described that the Aboh people are proud of, assuring that Aboh people and, indeed, Ndokwa nation, will massively mobilize and vote for him to emerge as the next governor of the state.
“Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is an Aboh son and we are proud of him. We are solidly behind his governorship ambition and we will massively deliver him”, Ogwu said.
Speaker after Speaker, the leaders of the party, promised to deliver Omo-Agege and other APC candidates in the 2023 general election.
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