Godwin Udoh
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) in conjunction with Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) urged all Deltans to support the MORE agenda of Governor Sheriff Oborovwori in area of humans and infrastructural development.
The groups gave this assurance at a joint statement in Asaba signed by Mr. Henry J.E Eze and Chief Efe Tobor Josiah, State chairman CUPP, IPAC State chairman respectively and made available to The Nigeria Xpress, saying, in the area of humans capital and infrastructure development to mention but few, Governor Oborevwori is remarkable.
“To developing the capacity of youths, Oborevwori administration has attracting the establishment of three new Faculties in the University of Science and Technology Ozoro-Basic Medical Science, Pharmacy and Health Science, all approved by the National University Commission (NUC).
We must admit that the 2023 Governorship election in which Governor Oborevwori scored 360,234 votes as against that of his main opponent who scored 240,229 votes underscored Oborevwori’s unflinching popularity in the State and prepared him for an early good start.
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No wonder that the Governor’s one year in office has been characterized by peace as all the different ethnic nationalities in the State have for the past one year been co-existing without inter-Communal rancour.
As the longest serving Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly in his time, he has combined strength, humble carriage as well as the capacity for harnessing amazing team spirit for successful implementation of his M.0.R.E agenda
In terms of infrastructural development, Governor Oborevwori has practically converted Delta State into a hug construction site as his administration is connecting communities with roads and bridges for sustainable development.
Perhaps most iconic of his infrastructural projects is the award of a N78billion naira contract to Julius Berger for the construction of three mega bridges, cloverleaf and road expansion works in Warri and Effurun.
Other road networks and bridges are scattered all over the three Senatorial districts of the state.
Meanwhile, Government has also built and commissioned an administrative block and tarred 2km of internal roads in the same University.
We have observed and commend Governor Oborevwori for being very workers friendly. He has demonstrated this by paying the backlog of N5billion promotion arrears of civil servants while also providing N40billion for payment of local government pensioners. He has also ordered the recruitment of 2000 teaching and non- teaching staff across the 25 Local Government Areas of the state.
That apart, students of Delta State origin numbering 60,000 in Tertiary Institutions have received their 2022/2023 bursary while also approving a 25% reduction in acceptance fees in the four States owned Universities.
The Delta State Government has provided palliative measures to cushion the effect of subsidy removal on workers, widows, vulnerable groups, the aged and vulnerable segments of the society
The State MORE Grant Scheme has recorded tremendous results as 3000 beneficiaries in targeted trades/Artisans have been empowered. Also direct beneficiaries of the Delta COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic stimulus (D-CARES) has exponentially increased from 36,353 to 110,841 within one year of the Oborevwori administration.
All these feats were achieved without the Governor borrowing a kobo in the last one year.
Following from the above, we can confidently say that CUPP have been vindicated by adopting of Rt Hon Oborevwori as their consensus candidate in the 2023 Governorship elections as he has even surpassed our expectations.
