Renowned Niger Delta environmental rights activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe, has said he joined the Delta State governorship race to redefine the politics of the state and make Deltans feel what it mean when resources are properly utilize for their betterment.
In a chat with a selected newsmen in Abuja on Thursday during the declaration of former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to gun for the All Progressives national chairmanship, Ofehe, said within four years when he is elected, Deltans would be shock what he will attract to the state without touching a single dime of the federal allocation.
He said state governments have failed to tap into the many window of economic opportunity open to develop their state because they solely rely on the nation’s oil wealth which come through monthly federal allocation.
Ofehe said besides changing the dynamics of Delta state politics, his administration would create so much awareness about the working of government that previous leaders of the state would be stone for misappropriation and amassing the common patrimony of the people.
According to him, the state was lagging behind because successive governments have failed to model infrastructures after what they see outside their shores, saying infrastructural decay in the state was because self interest over ride the people’s interest.
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