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<\/p>\nDelta All Progressives Congress , APC, Governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has accused his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opponent Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, of chasing away companies and businesses that once boosted the economy of the State through organized criminal extortion called \u201cdeve.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Deputy President of the Senate fingered Oborevwori as one the persons that started the illegal and unregulated taxation of companies and businesses in the Osubi area, which rapidly spread to Uwvie and then other parts of the state.<\/p>\n
Senator Omo-Agege, while speaking at Otor-Udu, Ovwian and Aladja, during the ongoing ward to ward campaigns of the APC, revealed that the widespread illegal taxation and general intimidation of private businesses in the state caused many of them to fold up or relocate from Delta.<\/p>\n
He told the mammoth crowd of party faithful and supporters that the Delta State Governorship election scheduled to hold early March this year is too important to the destiny Delta State to be left in the hands of persons of dubious character.<\/p>\n
He said the next governor should be somebody who is academically qualified, mentally equipped, and one who has an interest in the development of the economy of the State. “At this critical stage, Delta does not need a governor who has no basic knowledge of Development Economics that can design policies that positively impact the citizens of the State.<\/p>\n
“Deltans do not need the chairman or leader of touts who had been actively involved in chasing away investors that were doing business here, in the name of ‘Deve’.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described Delta Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as “mean man who does not have the interest of Deltans at heart.\u201d It is for this reason, he added, among all the Urhobo sons and daughters who served in his government, \u201che chose a ‘Deve’ Collector to succeed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
“It is time to chase Okowa and his ‘Deve’ Collector, away from the State and punish them for misappropriating resources of Delta State for seven years and seven months. You can do this by voting all candidates of APC,” he said.<\/p>\n
He expressed disappointment with the present situation at the Delta Steel Complex situated in Aladja. He said if the purpose of privatizing it was to increase efficiency and create wealth and jobs, the purpose has so far been roundly defeated.<\/p>\n
He promised to laiase with the relevant authorities to do something about the company so that the people can benefit from its presence on their land. He also assured retirees of DSC who had not been paid that he would address their issue as soon as he became governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Delta All Progressives Congress , APC, Governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has accused his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opponent Rt Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, of chasing away companies and businesses that once boosted the economy of the State through organized criminal extortion called \u201cdeve.\u201d The Deputy President of the Senate fingered Oborevwori as one the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8750,2,3],"tags":[4374,11777,10892,5629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822701,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822699\/revisions\/1822701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}