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''Sen. Okowa is Building a Strong Foundation For Delta People'' - Hon. Ossai Ossai

 Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai is one of the leading members of the present 8th Assembly. He is the Chairman of the Committee on Ethics and Privileges in the House. He is representing Ndokwa/Ukwani Federal Constituency Delta State. In this interview with Naijanewsmaker, he speaks on the achievements of Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa as well as the defection of Hon. Cairo Ojougbo among other issues of concern.
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Delta State was considered the 2nd most emergency state after Lagos State? How do you feel about this?

I feel very proud of Governor Okowa even with Meager resources that comes to Delta State without meeting up to the extent of paying the wage bill, he was still able to pay all the wage bills and create a platform where Delta State people are going to be trained, re-trained and empowered to start up their businesses and these efforts have been yielding  fruits for the past 2 two years. You will see that people have lost enthusiasm on politics and are going back to the farm and they are now producing, packaging and repackaging agricultural products. These are things that the APC Government in Abuja is talking about yet not implementing. But, Gov. Okowa has gone as far as laying this solid foundation for our teaming youths for the betterment of the future of this generation.
 I think, we should be proud of the Governor who has the foresight to develop the state and create enabling environment in terms of making sure he attracts investors to come and invest in Delta State.

Are you satisfied with level of education in state?

I am very satisfied. The Governor has done creditably well virtually all the schools are being renovated and books are being given to schools. Teachers are being trained and retrained to be able to impact positively well on their pupils.
Another key area the Gov. has taken interest is in developing its technical education. To train people to have skills at the secondary school level, in those days, they used to have skills but at some point, Nigeria jettisoned it.

You will be amazed on the developmental strides of the Governor and equipments have been brought to instill skills to the technical students and by the time they leave schools, they don’t need to look for white collar jobs because they are already employed and have technical skills in various areas like Welding, Bricklaying, P.O.P, Industrial Welders etc.

On the decision of Hon. Cairo Ojougboh to jump ship to the ruling APC. Do you think it is a threat to PDP?

I don’t think anybody is a threat to PDP. Delta State is a P.D.P state and the people believe in PDP so, I don’t think Delta State is ready to do away with PDP. Again, how can you have a performing Governor, performing Hon. Members, and you still want to jettison such a party? But, it is about choice and he has made his choice of course the door is always open for him to come back if he so wishes.

2019 what are your plans? Are you under pressured to come back?
I don’t feel under any pressure. I have to prepare myself mentally and when the time comes  I will make known my plans.
         


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