By Fejiro Oliver
Dear Deltans with APC State lawmakers, do not crucify your lawmakers when they do nothing. They can do nothing because my friend, Gov Sheriff Oborevwori is playing a demonic politics where he purposely refused to give APC House of Assembly members their lawful constituency projects, whereas he gives to PDP.
In Bayelsa State that’s led by PDP, Duoye Diri as Governor ensured that both PDP and APC lawmakers in the Assembly have been given their yearly N230 million to make some of the promises they made to the electorate come to pass. It was formerly N150M but increased to N250M due to the current rising cost of things.
Duoye didn’t play primitive politics like my dear senior friend and brother Sheriff Oborowheri is doing.
In Lagos State, a law was made that a percentage of the budget is set aside for lawmakers for constituency projects and the Governor has never tampered with it. This 15% set aside is used by lawmakers to develop their their various constituencies.
You can fact check me on the above.
The ultimate losers of this Sheriff satanic agenda are majority of the Urhobos from Delta Central and South who didn’t vote for PDP. It is the people who have been denied fair representation and underdevelopment not the elected lawmakers. Did they swear for Sheriff to hate Urhobo? Why is Sheriff a core Urhobo and UPU stakeholder the one punishing his own people?
Just in his backyard, his Bayelsa counterpart has proven to be a governor for all while Sheriff who keeps shouting that he’s a governor for all is actually a governor for Okowa’s favorites. One year after and APC lawmakers are still yet to give dividends of democracy to their people while PDP lawmakers are doing so.
Constituency Projects are critical to National development as they are one of the means by which Federal and State Governments, through the Legislators, take specific development to the nooks and crannies of the States, in order to address some of the needs of their constituents who elected them into offices. This is a well known practice even in Delta State
All PDP LEGISLATORS at the National are not denied their Constituency Project. Check UKUDIKO’s One year report how much he has been able to get by way of constituency project and what he has gotten from other Federal Government Agencies and Parastatals, whereas APC LEGISLATORS in the State are deprived of every opportunity to represent their people.
As Legislators representing the good people of their respective Constituencies, on a regular basis they are confronted with specific needs from the various Communities in their constituency and as representatives of the people, one of the ways to meet some of these needs, is through the window of Constituency projects. This opportunity in other climes is accorded to all Legislators and not based on party coloration.
When the 2024 Budget was presented by Sheriff, NONE of the APC lawmakers was give an opportunity to suggest or recommend projects in their Constituencies to be accommodated in the Budget.
Six Urhobo and One Ijaw lawmakers sin is that they are APC and Deltans MUST suffer for it according to the book of wickedness written by Okowa and handed over to Sheriff to practice.
Sheriff MUST stop this now