Senator Okowa will not throw the goodwill of the great people of Delta
State to the dust nor crush their hope like men with dead conscience or bring their
free mandates to frustration. Though the thoughts of men may not be known
by others but Senator Okowa could be held by his words, for he will not lead our
dear State to ruins but to greatness and much glory.
The will power to transmogrify Delta State burns within him as he
has pledged to all that he would put his exposures to use and draw in
all his associates to ensure overall success, while making God the
benefactor of his government, for without Him we will all fail.
Government is a continuum, hence the need to sustain the impetus
of present development and surpass it. The sacrosanctity of his vision to
transform this State to a private-sector driven economy is a mission that must
be archived without repudiation, with collective efforts but not with a singular
capacity. He will not run a government of exclusion but all-encompassing
governance that there will be no divide between political parties or
socio-political groups.
He will not run it on ethnic lines of Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko,
Itsekiri, Ika, Ndokwa and Anioma, for he will entomb all forms of
ethnocentrisms in the distribution of developmental projects and political
offices. This is therefore a call to service to all Delta people
across the world to bring all their expertise to work. Let all be free to advice,
propose and project to his government initiatives that have the potentialities
of transforming Delta State; as long as the projection will add positive values
to our common fortunes, his government doors will be open.
This is the time we must work as a team without seclusion, for no
land or people can progress without unity. Blackmailing of one another will
only build us mountains of hatred for one another but burying our
differences for unity of purpose will grant us speed to succeed and
gigantic transformation for our economy. He will drive a wagon of
development which no interest group will cry of marginalization, our people’s plight
will be made a priority to the point of total extermination of any oversight in
our prognoses of developmental projects. His
government will use appropriate professionals in ascertaining the local
government that will do well for each industry that he will facilitate with
investors.
Though he has completed his assessment of mineral resources embedded
in each local government area, government will not depend on that alone as more
research will be done, so as not to locate factory in a wrong location. Each
location must be rich with raw materials needed in the production of goods and
proximity of the location to infrastructures that will increase the market
gains or values of the products will also be considered.
The barn of natural/mineral resources is one of the wealthiest in
Nigeria today. No country or State with such rich heritage can be a failed
economy. So he will depart our focus from the national allocation and concentrate
within to create wealth from our untapped rich inheritance.
He will open up the rural communities with better road networks in
ensuring we alleviate the sufferings of our farmers who wish to transport their
produce to urban trading centres and it will stop the exodus of rural dwellers
to the urban centres, thereby stopping population congestion.
Education will be prioritized, as the free education will be maintained,
while granting more scholarships to the citizens of our State to study
professional courses both home and abroad. Skilled and vocational centres will
be built to ensure our youth and women are equipped to meet up the coming
demand for manpower in the expected industrial evolution.
The development of manpower is another aspect that will be
emphasized, as he will empower our people with knowledge that will salvage the
State from lack of skilled manpower during the coming explosion of
industries in the State. His government will continue to sponsor Delta youths
to acquire knowledge and skills from both home and abroad, thereby relegating
the importation of skilled manpower to zero percent. The women of Delta State have
shown in great percentage that they are ready for improved representation in
governance and to contribute immensely to the economic advancement of
our dear State.
There is therefore assurances to our mothers, wives and sisters
that their reputations will not be made mire to trample upon, rather, he
will exult them with high offices and where there is need for professionalism
for our projects, they will not be consigned to the background as mere chef. For
as the custodian of the law, he will not break the values of our
common existence and equality, for men and women are equal before the law and
God.
Our Rural women are great farmers, but over the years they have
been short-changed by traders from neighbouring States. He will ensure that
they are educated to be able to practice mechanized farming, grouping them into
macro-co-operatives in order to assist them in getting funding.
Senator Okowa may not be a magician to radiate the change we all
expect over night, but with our trust in his hands and our mandate to him is
the bonding force. When leaders lose their conscience, they also lose their
values for human lives and plight to their good –living. Senator Okowa does not
belong to that tandem of mindless leaders. His only bid to become
our leader is to improve our living standard and grant our people the status of
self-dependent and self-sufficiency. Yes! It is achievable and attainable with vision
and mission at heart. The competence of a leader should not be traded for
mediocrity or be destroyed on the altar of ethnic egoism.
If this State must metamorphose from civil service status,
let us divorce all forms of pull him down syndrome, for in the past we wasted
more time pulling down our own than lifting ourselves up . To what gains
did this bring to us rather than belittling our common growth as a
people? No outsiders can build our broken wall without a price or
interest of gains. But we can do it if we can all see this land as our only
heritage that is also our pride and treasure.
No sane groom can murder his virgin -bride on the wedding day to
feed his friends. So no matter the differences in our interests, we should not
destroy our State image for the sake of our selfish visions and we should not
also invite strangers to mortgage our collective common wealth by using
destructive tactics against each other and the State.
With the current international review of world economy,
which rates Nigeria and Mexico as the emerging Economy, our State will
play pivotal role in that emergence as one of the oil producing and
fastest growing States. With this we are placed at the forefront of comity
States; therefore we must build on this reputation for posterity.
Honesty is the channel of truth between the soul and the mind.
Those who nurture it are imbued with enormous power: the power to see, the
power to know, the power to differentiate, the power to reflect, the power to
choose, the power to speak the truth, and ultimately the power to grow.
Dishonesty is never the way to authentic power. Dishonesty leads to less real
power. When you are honest, however, you are in alignment with the source and
you maintain your positioning in the Divine Design for Harmony where your
experience is one of real ease and joy and true power.
For Delta State to take its rightful place and be more relevant in
today's world it needs bold, inspiring and visionary leadership devoid of
corruption and cronyism and Senator Okowa is the key of such
leadership. He stands for honesty, trustworthy, scrupulousness and
conscientiousness, he is principled, selfless, bonded in contentment,
right-minded, moral, ethical, good, virtuous, just, noble, respectable, decent
and above all, prudent. With him, Delta State is choosing a leader who is not
corrupt, and who will place people over his personal needs and above all,
transparent.
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