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GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA: Fulfilling Election Promises


Leadership is a word, and productive leadership is an art. The art part is when you use your knowledge and decision to apply proven practices to improve upon the status quo. It is then you are in to produce effective results.

The season of campaigning is the time those aspiring to govern the people enter into social contract with the electorate through their manifestoes. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa campaign assertions formed the reason why the people of Delta State gave him their mandate to become the governor of the State.

The governor promised during his declaration to ensure job creation through creating a vibrant industrial atmosphere that will boost entrepreneurship and human capital development and to focus on the overall wellbeing of the common man, which will generate employment and empowerment for all.  That is what he is doing now without any repudiation or hesitation.

Governor Okowa began his governance with key projects that made his five-point agenda of SMART. In furtherance to this, the State government under the SMART agenda has rolled out six job creation schemes. The six schemes are:  Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme, Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme, Production and Processing Support Programme, Tractorisation, Extension of Microcredit and Agricultural Loans and Development of Agro-industries.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa assumed office with accurate capacity and enormous creativity on how to execute his agenda and leave behind indelible marks on the sands of time for generations after him. Any leader that made promises without planning how it will be brought about is like planting a seed without watering it to sprout.

Though the odds of the present economic status of our country and the world at large may hamper his desired projections on how to grow our economy, he has long looked beyond the federal allocation, searching within measures to earn more revenues.

Okowa’s approach on how to achieve his visions is truly displayed   in all his efforts.  He has said clearly that he is not in governance to neither protect ills nor harbour evils, that no person in his government shall be justified to squander our common wealth, no matter his status. He won’t tolerate undemocratic behaviour in public service nor condone the barbaric act of looting in any form. Transparency shall be his government’s watchword and in all transactions of his governance, due process will be followed to the letter.

It can be argued that the primary business of democratic government is the development and implementation of good policy and the optimal allocation of resources to support those policy decisions. "Good" policy has the desired effects and, where possible, does not have unanticipated secondary effects. A key factor in making good policy is the use of high- quality evidence about the issues in question so as to define or resolve the range of options available to the policymaker.

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