2019: Ofehe declares, says I’ll be next Delta Governor
Frontline governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressive Congress in Delta state, Chief Sunny Ofehe, on Saturday said in him Delta State has a new Governor comes 2019.
Ofehe made this assertion while declaring his intention to vie for the office of the governor in the 2019 general election at the Ekwerigbe Primary School playground in Ozoro, headquarters of Isoko North Council Area.
The activist turned politician said his top priority would be to give nutritional access to the pregnant woman and strengthen the institutions that would grow the socioeconomic development of the state.
According to him, he would not promise Deltans construction of roads, schools and hospitals because, according to him, they are the minimal basic amenities any government the world over can offer her people.
Ofehe, who pulled about seven foreign investors who are willing to plug their resources into his economic agenda, lamented the under development of institutions in the state, saying he weep for the infrastructural deficit in the state.
He said: “Every day I wake up in the city called Rotterdam, I weep for Delta State.
“We are in a state that has four under functioning sea port.
“We are in a state with two major truck terminals that export crude oil out of this country.
“We are in a state that is the second largest producer of crude oil in the country and we are in a state with the largest gas reserve that made Nigeria the largest exporter of crude oil all over the world, but what we seeing is poverty.
“What we see is institutional failure.
“What we see is lack of education.
“What we see is failure in our health care system and all of that can be summarised to be product of bad leadership, corruption.
“Delta State is the gateway to South West and South East, so whether by air, by sea or by land you cannot access this region without passing through our state.
“We are not suppose to be where we are today but because I have seen how things work.
“European development is not a rocket science, it was borne out of patriotism, dedication and respect for equal rights and that’s why I have offered myself to serve you and to serve with a simple slogan: FixDelta, because our state is broken and we need to fix it.
“And we need to fix it not only by my power but we need to fix it together.
“We need to bring in international collaboration and we need to bring in national unity and we need to bring our people together.
“Isoko nation, as my mentor has said, has been marginalised for too long but we want to stand up and say we have what it takes to produce the next governor of this state.
“I have come with some of my friends who are into business, they are investors.
“They represent a consortium that we are trying to build internationally, they represent every segment of our economy.”