As we celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of
another, the people of Delta Central Senatorial District and the entire Urhobo
Nation join other Nigerians and millions more around the world to celebrate and
welcome a New Year filled with joy, health and prosperity. The New Year is no
doubt a joyous time of rebirth and optimism.
While
2019 was difficult for many Nigerians, let us welcome the new year with an
utmost faith that brighter days are ahead of us. Let us understand that
although our challenges are huge and our problems seem complex, each of us,
working together resolutely as one to strengthen and renew our social compact,
will overcome these challenges.
We
must find lasting solutions to the problems of Nigeria, however difficult,
while preserving its territorial integrity. Let us resolve to build a future
where all our people can love one another and live together in harmony; and
where our hope for peace and prosperity are finally realised through economic
transformation.
As
we move forward into the New Year, I urge all Nigerians to recognize the
beautiful and positive diversity of our nation, embrace the vital truth that
our diversity is our strength. Let us devote our hearts and energies to those
things, and they are many, that unite us, that hold us forth as the largest
black nation of the world. We must explore, exploit and dwell on them, for our common
good.
As
the Deputy President of the Senate, the peace and unity of this our great
country is paramount and it is something I will always work hard to preserve in
the strong belief that we are stronger together as one nation. I therefore
enjoin all Nigerians to join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari in
reaffirming our commitments to the Unity of Nigeria.
At
home in Delta Central, where we have been marginalised in the politics of state
and country, we made progress in our determined march to regain our pride of
place among other groups in Nigeria in 2019. I want to very warmly thank the
people of Delta Central and the entire Urhobo Nation for their support during
the 2019 general elections. Your support made the Restoration of Urhobo Greatness
possible.
In the New Year, we will intensify our effort
to free Delta from the iron grip of the People’s Democratic Party in the state.
This will require us to jettison the destabilising politics driven by the
rivalries, contestations and factions that has bedeviled the All Progressives
Congress, APC in Delta State since its inception. We must now embrace peace and
unite as one people and family, working harder together with renewed courage,
determination, vigour and common purpose to free our people and state from
bondage.
On
my part, I will give maximum co-operation to the Austin Izagbo led
reconciliation committee which was constituted by the Delta APC Caucus to
reconcile all members. It is my hope that at the end of the committee’s work,
we will all come together as one big family, ready to tackle the challenges
ahead; make further progress in restoring Delta State and contributing our
quota to the building of a more united and prosperous Nigeria.
Finally,
I want to urge every Nigerian to take 2020 as the reach-out year and use it to
build new bridges and new hopes among fellow Nigerians because no matter the
great personal strides one may have made, they are not relevant unless such
achievements impact on the lives of others.
On
behalf of the good people of Delta Central Senatorial District, I wish you all
a happy New Year.
HE
Ovie Omo-Agege
Deputy President of the Senate
(The Obarisi of Urhobo Land)
Deputy President of the Senate
(The Obarisi of Urhobo Land)
31st December, 2019
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