Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, an All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor of Delta, has pledged that, if elected in 2023, he will create a university in Ijawland.
During the party’s ward-to-ward campaign train visit to the state’s Bomadi Local Government area on Monday, Omo-Agege made the pledge.
“My administration will establish a tertiary institution in Ijawland to bring education closer to the people.
“The promises I am making to you today can only be possible, if you vote for me, Bola Tinubu and all other APC candidates, who will actualise the yearnings of our people,” he said.
Omo-Agege lamented the lack of infrastructure in Ijaw areas and pledged to fix it if elected.
In order to put an end to the council area’s protracted power outage, the senator who represents Delta Central Senatorial District also promised the populace that his administration will connect Bomadi and its surroundings to the national grid.
He bemoaned the state of the access roads in the council and the deteriorating Ohoror/Bomadi Bridge, promising that his government will take urgent action to fix the problems.
Despite the Ijaw villages’ significant financial contributions to the state, according to Omo-Agege, the government led by Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa had abandoned the residents of Bomadi and other Ijaw areas.
Bomadi’s urban status would be raised to that of one of the state’s commercial centers, and the governor candidate pledged to change the narrative by luring development to the area.
“I want to assure you my good people of Bomadi Council, with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the President, I will fix the Bomadi, Gbaregolor, Akugbene and Ohoror/Bomadi Bridges.
“I will fix the roads that have failed. The only existing bridges and roads still existing in Bomadi were done by former Gov. James Ibori.
“The Catholic Bishop of Bomadi spoke with me sometimes ago where he appealed that I should use my good office to ensure that Bomadi is connected to the National grid and that Bomadi has been in darkness for too long.
“Let me assure you people that Bomadi will be connected to the Ughelli 33KVA line to ensure that Bomadi is linked to the National grid.
Speaking to party supporters in Bomadi and Tuomo I, Elder Omeni Sobotie, the chairman of the APC in Delta, commented that the Okowa-led administration had not completed any projects worth one billion Naira in the previous seven and a half years.
“An APC-led government of Sen. Omo-Agege will address the aged-long marginalisation and underdevelopment of the Bomadi, if elected in the 2023 general elections,” he said.
Additionally, Elder Godsday Orubebe, the Director-General of the Delta APC Campaign Organization, exhorted the Ijaw Nation’s citizens to support Omo-Agege and other APC candidates in the general elections by casting a large number of ballots.
Speaking to the jubilant crowd in Ijaw, Orubebe, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, assured them that if Omo-Agege were elected governor, the Ijaw people would not be let down.