For the restoration of the Sapele/Benin Road and the Amukpe/Agbor/Uromi Road in the states of Delta and Edo, President Muhammadu Buhari has authorized the disbursement of N80 billion.
Ovie Omo-Agege, the deputy senate president, revealed this to the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) on Monday during a meeting in Sapele, Delta State.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor in Delta State, Mr. Omo-Agege, remembered how he was resolved to see that the project—which he said had already been given the go-ahead for reconstruction—was finished after assuming the position of deputy senate president.
According to him, Mr. Buhari ordered that N500 billion of the commission’s frozen funds be released for development projects with the reconstitution of the NDDC board, and N80 billion was approved when he (Omo-Agege) pleaded with the president to take the Sapele/Benin Road and the Amukpe/Agbor/Uromi Road into consideration.
He also attributed Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of Delta State, of failing to develop Delta State.
If elected, Mr. Omo-Agege promised to foster an environment that would encourage businesses that had left the state due to unrest and other circumstances to reenter.
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Ima Niboro, the director of communications and media strategy for the Delta APC Campaign Council, quoted him as saying in a statement, “When I become governor on May 29, 2023, I will not wait for the federal government before constructing strategic roads in Delta and ensuring the implementation of the local content law so as to provide job opportunities for our youths.”
Residents were urged not to worry about the Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket of the APC since the group “wants power for development and growth,” according to Mr. Omo-Agege.
“For that purpose, we use power. If Tinubu couldn’t islamise his wife, a pastor, how would he be able to islamise other Nigerians? he questioned. “I think it is only fair and just for power to shift to the south after eight years of Buhari. I gave it everything I had. The APC’s governors backed it.
Who can help the people develop, he continued, should be the main focus.
Jonathan Iwhiwhu, the chairman of the Christian Council of Nigeria’s Delta State chapter, earlier emphasized the role played by the church in development and urged for support in the building of a secretariat and official bus.
When he is elected governor, he argued for policies that have a negative impact on the church’s business endeavors, such as schools, to be controlled.
In addition, Mr. Iwhiwhu demanded that as compensation for the church’s backing of his election as governor, employment possibilities be made available to the children within it.
