Delta @ 26: People have a lot to celebrate, says Okowa

AS Delta State celebrates 26 years of its creation, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the people have a lot of reasons to celebrate. According to him, “as a people, as a state and as a government, we have every reason to celebrate because, if not for any other reason, from August last year when we marked our silver jubilee
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has attributed the success of its Local Government Congress on Thursday, August 10, 2017, to internal democracy. The declaration followed the successful conduct of the congress across the 23 Local Government Areas of the State, which produced one delegate for each LGA for the National Convention of the Party, holding in Abuja on Saturday.
The State Chairman of the party, Brother Felix Obuah, in a statement in Port Harcourt, praised the delegates for their full and enthusiastic participation, describing it as a job well done, reiterating that the party remained committed to the entrenchment of democracy and good governance in the state. Brother Obuah, in the statement, expressed joy that the delegates had once more made the party proud, stressing that the successful conduct of the Local Government Congress was coming on the heels of the landmark Ward Congress
held earlier in the week. The State PDP Chairman, who described the peaceful conduct of the exercise as a bold and loud statement of the party’s resolve to build an enduring political party devoid of bitterness and rancour, called on other political parties in the State, particularly the All Progressives Congress (APC) to eschew egocentric and selfish politics and borrow a leaf from the PDP. In the light of such a development, Brother Obuah reassured the people of the State that the PDP would remain
a model and channel from where good governance would be delivered to them and all Nigerians. The State PDP boss charged the people of the State not to be deceived by the antics of the APC, which he described as ‘a dead association’, noting that APC could not hold a successful Congress because of its faulty foundation. “APC, founded on greed, selfishness, deceit and blackmail, could be likened to a house, whose foundation was built on a sandy and muddy ground.
to this year, there is reasonable restoration of peace, especially in our creeks where there is no longer destruction of pipelines.” Governor Okowa, who stated this yesterday at an interdenominational thanksgiving service at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Delta Province 3 Headquarters, Asaba, stated that “though the impact of the peace that has returned to the creeks may not have been felt in our economy, because the state did not only suffer from the effect of consistent low price of oil for more than 38 months; we were not just affected by the price going down and the quantum produced but, there is hope that it will be better. “We are grateful to the church for prayers, we are thankful to the youths for sheathing their swords, we thank our traditional rulers for their interventions and to all those who worked for peace to return to our state, we
say thank you, adding that this is a time for us to think, we should submit ourselves to the fact that each and everyone of us has a role to play and we must be ready to offer leadership in one way or the other; we must continue to provide leadership in our homes and communities; each and every one of us is important in building a new Nigeria.” The governor kicked against any action that could lead to disaffection in the country,