Delta government says former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, cannot drag Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori into myopic politics now when he is concentrating on good governance of the state.
The State Commissioner for Works (Rural Roads) and Public Information, accompanied by Executive Assistant on the New Media, Felix Ofou, stated this at a news conference on Monday in Asaba.
Aniagwu said that because the oppositions were idle and lacked adequate information about the myriad achievements of the Gov. Oborevwori-led administration, they needed to be educated and as leaders, they needed to be patriotic in their statements.
According to Aniagwu, the former deputy Senate president had, at the weekend, accused the state governor of neglecting the people of Delta South and Delta North Senatorial Districts in terms of developmental infrastructure.
“Since people don’t have information, you give them so that next time they are well guided because we have been listening to them, but that will not distract us from responding with projects to the issues they have raised.”
He said that it was sad that the DSP, who should know more, was progressing in error, adding that despite his antics, Gov. Oborevwori would continue to reply to them with more projects.
The commissioner said that the current administration has impacted on education, health, roads, agriculture, various empowerment programmes through skills acquisition and all other sectors across the state.
He said that the government had awarded a good number of projects, completed and ongoing across all the local government areas in Delta South and Delta North as well as in the Delta Central Senatorial Districts.
He said that various projects had been reeled out many times and they were verifiable across the state to guide critics with requisite information.
Aniagwu said the projects had been mentioned several times to educate and inform the opposition so that the former DSP and others would stop progressing in error.
“With the Gov. Oborevwori approach, the state will remain solvent. The opposition has resolved to take undue advantage of the media to paint pictures that are at variance with the reality on the ground.
“They are pained that we are replying with projects. Because most of them are no longer in government, they are out of jobs and are idle, We have to educate them so that they cannot continue in their ignorance.
“We do not want to join politics now but we do not want them to wallow up in ignorance; hence, we are educating them on what we are doing,” Aniagwu said.
Aniagwu said that the governor, in line with his agenda to do more for the people, has directed all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies to speed up work with the projects that they were handling at different levels.
He said that the state government has prohibited illegal mining activities at the government-acquired land at the Ugbolu Community, near Asaba.
According to Aniagwu, the activities of the illegal stone miners are defacing and destroying the landscape at Ugbolu, an area earmarked for development as part of the expansion of our urban renewals of the capital territory.
The commissioner said that anyone caught in the act would be arrested and made to face the wrath of the law.
He also warned that the state government would not close its eyes to any mining operation, be it legal or illegal, that undermined the environmental impact assessment in any community.
