Towards 2023, there have been clamours by the Isoko ethnic nationality for the seat of the Senate in Delta South senatorial district to get a balance in the political affairs of the zone. This made one of their sons, supported by the leadership vie for the senatorial ticket of one of the political parties but met a brick wall. Though the first shot fired missed the target, the Isoko people came prepared with a double-edged sword because their agitation for the senatorial seat is not out of place but genuine. The job must be completed because for the Isoko people…
Author: Spade Nigeria
The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has called on the people of Bayelsa State to vote for him in the 2023 general elections, saying he knows the way to the prosperity of the country. Tinubu spoke on Thursday at the APC presidential rally held at the Ox-Bow Lake Pavilion, Yenagoa, amidst tight security and torrential rainfall, with about five gunboats patrolling the Ekoli River in front of the facility. The rally was preceded by a visit to the Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council, headed by the monarch of Ekpetiama Kingdom, King Bubaraye Dakolo. The APC standard bearer, while…
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to make Bayelsa State what it truly should be: one of the nation’s largest producers of oil, if he becomes president. Tinubu said: “This state is home to proud and vibrant people. Although this is a small land mass, Bayelsa has been blessed with abundant human and natural resources. “With that blessing, your state has been asked to carry a great and long national duty. You all have given so much to the development of this nation. Nigeria would not be Nigeria without your human and material contribution. “On…
A group, Niger Delta Development Agenda (NDDA), has called on a group of legal practitioners, Lawyers For Justice Reform and others to properly verify their facts and provisions of the law and desist from maligning the good image of Hon. Stella Okotete, the Executive Director, Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM). In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mr Iteveh Nur’ Ekpokpobe and Secretary, Comr. Karo Edor, issued in Port-Harcourt, the group stated that the Lawyers For Justice Reform petition was baseless, and laced with deliberate maliciousness to bring an illustrious daughter of Niger Delta to disrepute before the public. According…
The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said if elected as the next governor, his administration would reactivate and fixed moribund industries littered across the State. He stated that the plan is part of his economic blueprint to boost business activities in the State. Omo-Agege, who is the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, also assured the people of Ika Nation that an APC-led government in the State would be fair and just to Ika nation and other parts of Delta. The Delta Central lawmaker stated this on Thursday at Ward…
A former speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and chieftain of the APC, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, says he is fully in support of the gubernatorial ambition of the Deputy President of the Senate and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, as the next governor of Delta State. Ochei, who spoke at the APC ward-to-ward campaign to Aniocha North LGA, said Omo-Agege will succeed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the next governor of the state in 2023. The former lawmaker described the Delta Central lawmaker as his friend and a honest politician who will…
The APC Delta State has lamented the lack of infrastructure and development in Anioma nation of Delta State. The State party Chairman, Elder Omeni Sobotie, made this declaration at Nsukwa, Aniocha South LGA of Delta State, during the ongoing APC ward to ward campaigns for the 2023 general elections. “It is a thing of shame that in 2015, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa came in the name of Anioma and having been given that opportunity, he wickedly punished the Anioma people by taking every development project to his hometown, Owa-Alero, at the expense of others. *But don’t worry, his days are numbered,…
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has assured that a Presidency led by Atiku Abubakar and Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa will bring in meaningful development that will impact positively to the lives of Nigerians. The Minority Leader, spoke Monday and Tuesday in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State while canvassing for votes for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and all its candidates during the on-going rallies ahead of the forthcoming general elections A massive crowd followed Elumelu who was in the train of the Delta North PDP Ward Campaign Team led by the PDP…
Hundreds of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters from Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta have dumped the Party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former PDP supporters, while dumping the Party, vowed to deliver all candidates of APC including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Ovie Omo-Agege for President and Governor respectively. They stated that despite having the Governor in their locality, the little projects were executed by the APC-led Federal Government of President Mohammadu Buhari. The defectors were received into the APC by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator…
By Olorogun Olori Magege Delta State has since 1999 ran on the wheel of equity, fairness and the stability, peace and cohesion occasioned by the presence of justice. This is why Delta State stands tall to be counted among the three most stable states in Nigeria today. The reality of the peace and stability that hold sway in Delta State is not by accident. It is the product of a deliberate decision and choice orchestrated by the leaders and which the people embraced wholesale for the good of all. This experience is what has given birth to and sustained the…