Assessing Okowa’s giant strides in Delta

By Charles Aniagwu For a better appreciation of the good works of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State, it will be rational to assess his stewardship from the standpoint of the nation’s economic adversities when the governor took over the mantle of leadership on May 29, 2015. When the governor assumed office, the country was in recession and confronted with various degrees of economic challenges as a result of the drastic drop in the crude oil prices which adversely affected the state’s allocations from the federation account. This recurring decimal of paucity of funds, coupled with the inherited debt profile and other huge wage bills to be serviced, no doubt posed a serious threat to the speedy actualization of the government’s well-thought-out vision for the people of the state as contained in its four-point agenda. Delta State was among the worst hit, considering that the activities of the Avengers were basically in Delta State while virtually no Oil produced from the State was exported for eighteen months when the Forcados Export Crude Terminal was destroyed by the agitators and this affected the revenue allocation chart from the federation account dropping from second highest to fourth highest crude producing state… Read full this story

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