Delta Guber: Stop Hiding Behind Okowa, Come Out And Debate, Omo Agege Challenges Oborevwori

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy Senate President and governorship candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State has challenged his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Sheriff Oborevwori, to a debate on national television.

Lambasting Oborevwori for hiding behind his political godfather and vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, in his campaigns, Agege charged Deltans to pressurise the PDP governorship flagbearer to personally speak to them in an open debate to be aired nationally.

He also challenged Oborevwori to tell Deltans what he has done as the longest serving Speaker and what he will do as a governor if elected to office in 2023.

The Delta Central lawmaker spoke yesterday at Orerokpe, Aghalokpe, and Adeje towns in the continuation of the APC ward-to-ward campaign train to Okpe local government area of the state.

Omo-Agege, who listed several projects he attracted and executed in Okpe LGA, accused Okowa of abandoning the Technical College at Orerokpe, which was the only tangible project Oborevwori attracted to the council as the longest-serving speaker of the state House of Assembly.

The senator further berated Oborevwori for failing to use his influence as a speaker to ensure the completion of the Effurun-Orerokpe-Eku dualisation project in his immediate constituency.

“I’m challenging Sheriff Oborevwori to a debate. I am using this opportunity to challenge Sheriff Oborevwori to a national television debate. You know the man (Sheriff) likes hiding behind people. He hides behind Governor Okowa and Esiso during campaigns. He should personally come out and tell Deltans what he plans to do for the people of the state.

“Now it’s the question I’m expecting they will ask me. Now as they haven’t asked Sheriff, I want to ask Sheriff. As Sheriff is the Speaker of the House of Assembly, he’s the number three man in Delta State Government.

“I know the things Okowa did for his people, and I knew that one-day Okowa decided to establish three universities. He put one in his village in Owo-Alero, then he put one in Agbor, he set up another one in Asaba, and then converted the polytechnic in Ozoro into a university.

“Now our brother, our son, who’s the Speaker, couldn’t look Okowa in the eyes and say, ‘Your Excellency, where is my people’s own?’ But Sheriff couldn’t ask Okowa ‘all these loans that we are approving, which one do you want to use in developing Okpe local government?’

“So, if you look around right now there is nothing in Okpe local government. The only thing that was supposed to come to Okpe is the Technical College and the project is abandoned. It is abandoned. Did Okpe people offend Okowa? Did Okpe people offend Sheriff?”, he asked.