Governor Ifeanyi Okowa
Our attention has been drawn to media reports particularly credited to the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan wherein he alleged that the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led administration is on a vindictive mission to bulldoze his legacies as governor.
It is not the style of the Okowa-led government to respond to fallacious claims but we owe the public the duty to set the record straight particularly when such lies are spilled by a former governor who this administration has given his dues and respect.
Since the recent defection of former Governor Uduaghan to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the PDP where he was bred and fed, we are inundated with both clandestine and visible plot to drag the Governor Okowa-led government into his dwindling political fortune just to deceive the public and possibly score very cheap political point.
By his conduct and utterances, Dr Uduaghan needs to do more to convince Deltans that his desperate desire to become a Senator should not make him feed the general public with lies about a non-existent legacy project(s).
Deltans and Nigerians who visit the state daily are aware that the former governor has no legacies in his 8 years in government thus his day-dreaming claims of legacy projects will not fly.
We challenge Dr Uduaghan to tell the world about the said legacy projects he claimed to have left behind which this government has destroyed.
It is worth noting, that the Uduaghan-led administration’s free healthcare program had a budget of about N700 million yearly providing free healthcare in urban cities and Secondary Health Facilities only. No Primary Healthcare Facility (PHC) in rural communities where the real people that needs the Free healthcare the most, was involved in the program. Also, no proper records of people that actually received the free healthcare service was kept. And, the free healthcare service was limited and had no provision for the referral of serious cases. In this administration, we now register all the people and have proper records of those that receive the service. It has been extended to rural communities PHCs where the real poor people that need it reside. The service has been expanded to ensure all children under 5 years and pregnant women in Delta State receive full healthcare services with referral for serious cases, drugs with materials required to provide service are available in these facilities all the time under the Contributory Health Scheme, free for all Children under 5 years and pregnant women and paid for by the Government of Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa.
A man who couldn’t summon courage to vie for a Senatorial election as a sitting Governor is here, boasting about leading a failed mission to unseat a hardworking Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who is committed to cleaning up the mess he left behind in his uneventful and sad era as Governor.
It is indeed amazing that the same Dr Uduaghan, who a few months ago endorsed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for a second term on account of his sterling performances in spite of the downturn in the economy displayed lack of integrity when he stylishly dodged the question on the performance of Governor Okowa while on the Channels TV Hard Copy programme.
We hereby assure Dr Uduaghan and his new found political family that, Deltans are quite impressed with the developmental efforts of the PDP in Delta State as led by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and are prepared once more to return him back for a second term come 2019 and to assure him and his cohorts that their plots and boasts of a takeover of Delta State will remain an exercise in futility.
Signed:
Ogbueshi Patrick Ukah fnimn, arpa, mnipr
September 4, 2018.
