THE FIVE DELTA STATE POLITICIANS THAT WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE OSUBI-WARRI AIRSTRIP
January 13, 2021 | News
Without mincing words, let it be categorically noted here that the Five Delta State politicians, whom I, and everyone will hold responsible for the non-functioning of the Osubi-Warri Airstrip, which is simply due to it not being upgraded to a standard Airport,
THE FIVE DELTA STATE POLITICIANS THAT WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF THE OSUBI-WARRI AIRSTRIP
Without mincing words, let it be categorically noted here that the Five Delta State politicians, whom I, and everyone will hold responsible for the non-functioning of the Osubi-Warri Airstrip, which is simply due to it not being upgraded to a standard Airport, are former Governors Chief James Ibori, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and Minister of State, Festus Keyamo, Deputy Senate President - Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Sheriff Oborevwori.
With such significant politicians of Delta State, is it not SHAMEFUL that the all-important Osubi-Warri Airstrip has remained under-utilized for years, and currently nonfunctional? Is it not SHAMEFUL that these Five Delta State politicians drive all the way to Benin or Asaba just to board a flight to Lagos, Abuja and Kano, and whenever they are returning to Delta State from Abuja and Lagos State, they have to board flights again from there to Benin or Asaba?
Former Governor James Ibori wasted his Eight years in office without having a concrete plan to upgrade the Osubi-Warri Airstrip into a standard Airport. This is the same Airstrip/Airport many Stakeholders have rated as one of the best in the country and in West Africa.
As for former Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, it is very painful on his part for not addressing this issue in his Eight years reign as Governor because he is a real Warri boy, who attended the Federal Government College, Warri. And he practiced medicine in Warri as well. He lived and practiced medicine at his home and Clinic at No. 7 Jubare Street, Off Giwa-Amu Street, Okumagba Layout, Warri. He worked in West End Clinic/Hospital in Warri too, and did Locum Tenens with Shell (SPDC) Clinic, Ogunu-Warri, before he joined his cousin James Ibori's PDP administration, and later became Governor of Delta State. Yet, he was unable to upgrade the Osubi-Warri Airstrip and make it a standard functional Airport as expected.
The same Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is now planning to seek for election to go to the Senate. The question is, what does he really want again in life? What does he want to do in the Senate? A man who could not upgrade just an Airstrip, and make it functional as a standard size airport, is now planning to seek to be elected into the Senate. For what? When he was a governor of Delta State, he forgot that he would one day seek to be elected to the Senate. He refused to develop Warri, but yet he now needs the votes of Warri people and the people living in Warri to be elected as a Senator.
For Festus Keyamo (SAN), he is a native of Uvwie Local Government Area who has been in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration. And he recently held a South-South stakeholders meeting in Port-Harcourt, where he assured them in the said meeting that within a few weeks, the upgrade of Osubi-Warri Airstrip will start and the Osubi-Warri Airstrip will be functional within few weeks. But up till now, nothing has been done in that regard in fulfilling this promise.
As for Sheriff Oborevwori, who is now the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, and from Osubi town where the said Osubi-Warri Airstrip is located. But he has turned a blind eye on the deplorable state of the said Airstrip in his hometown. Then as for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, 'nothing spoilt', as far as the Asaba Airport is functional. Forgetting that the bulk of the wealth of Delta State is gotten from the Delta South and Delta Central of the State where the said Osubi-Warri Airstrip is located.
On the part of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, whom we can say is closest to the Presidency by virtue of his position as Deputy Senate President. Yet, he has done nothing about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip/Airport. One begins to wonder what is the essence of having a Delta State son as the number four citizen of Nigeria as the Deputy Senate President, when the issue about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip upgrade has remained unattended to.
According to Dr. Adogbeji Ideh, who is the first Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Chairman of Delta State, and the Owner of Delta Clinic, he recently said this about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip, and I quote: "... The Osubi airport/airstrip is the best airport in terms of its runway in all airports in West Africa. Quote me. The German Engineers who were my Patients told me so."
The warning to Omo-Agege, Festus Keyamo, Sheriff Oborevwori is that there is life after Government. Their choices and deliberate actions will one day hunt them, like that of Ibori and Uduaghan who wasted 16 years as Governors of Delta State, is hunting them around today. They should not be carried away by the praises of sycophants because there is a pay back time coming, and all these praise singers who crowd them like bees will all varnish when they leave government. Then, it is people that they are now neglecting, that they will want to run to. But by then, it will be too late. Let the politicians that have ears, hear the cries of the people and do what is expected of them now that they are still in the corridors of power. No country or State can develop without the right infrastructure, and airport is a major modern transport infrastructure needed for such development. But having failed to address this, the likes of Uduaghan and Ibori are not qualified to seek for any other elective position in the State and country, not even as a Councilor.
Zik Gbemre.
January 13, 2021
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Without mincing words, let it be categorically noted here that the Five Delta State politicians, whom I, and everyone will hold responsible for the non-functioning of the Osubi-Warri Airstrip, which is simply due to it not being upgraded to a standard Airport, are former Governors Chief James Ibori, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and Minister of State, Festus Keyamo, Deputy Senate President - Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Sheriff Oborevwori.
With such significant politicians of Delta State, is it not SHAMEFUL that the all-important Osubi-Warri Airstrip has remained under-utilized for years, and currently nonfunctional? Is it not SHAMEFUL that these Five Delta State politicians drive all the way to Benin or Asaba just to board a flight to Lagos, Abuja and Kano, and whenever they are returning to Delta State from Abuja and Lagos State, they have to board flights again from there to Benin or Asaba?
Former Governor James Ibori wasted his Eight years in office without having a concrete plan to upgrade the Osubi-Warri Airstrip into a standard Airport. This is the same Airstrip/Airport many Stakeholders have rated as one of the best in the country and in West Africa.
As for former Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, it is very painful on his part for not addressing this issue in his Eight years reign as Governor because he is a real Warri boy, who attended the Federal Government College, Warri. And he practiced medicine in Warri as well. He lived and practiced medicine at his home and Clinic at No. 7 Jubare Street, Off Giwa-Amu Street, Okumagba Layout, Warri. He worked in West End Clinic/Hospital in Warri too, and did Locum Tenens with Shell (SPDC) Clinic, Ogunu-Warri, before he joined his cousin James Ibori's PDP administration, and later became Governor of Delta State. Yet, he was unable to upgrade the Osubi-Warri Airstrip and make it a standard functional Airport as expected.
The same Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan is now planning to seek for election to go to the Senate. The question is, what does he really want again in life? What does he want to do in the Senate? A man who could not upgrade just an Airstrip, and make it functional as a standard size airport, is now planning to seek to be elected into the Senate. For what? When he was a governor of Delta State, he forgot that he would one day seek to be elected to the Senate. He refused to develop Warri, but yet he now needs the votes of Warri people and the people living in Warri to be elected as a Senator.
For Festus Keyamo (SAN), he is a native of Uvwie Local Government Area who has been in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration. And he recently held a South-South stakeholders meeting in Port-Harcourt, where he assured them in the said meeting that within a few weeks, the upgrade of Osubi-Warri Airstrip will start and the Osubi-Warri Airstrip will be functional within few weeks. But up till now, nothing has been done in that regard in fulfilling this promise.
As for Sheriff Oborevwori, who is now the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, and from Osubi town where the said Osubi-Warri Airstrip is located. But he has turned a blind eye on the deplorable state of the said Airstrip in his hometown. Then as for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, 'nothing spoilt', as far as the Asaba Airport is functional. Forgetting that the bulk of the wealth of Delta State is gotten from the Delta South and Delta Central of the State where the said Osubi-Warri Airstrip is located.
On the part of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, whom we can say is closest to the Presidency by virtue of his position as Deputy Senate President. Yet, he has done nothing about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip/Airport. One begins to wonder what is the essence of having a Delta State son as the number four citizen of Nigeria as the Deputy Senate President, when the issue about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip upgrade has remained unattended to.
According to Dr. Adogbeji Ideh, who is the first Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Chairman of Delta State, and the Owner of Delta Clinic, he recently said this about the Osubi-Warri Airstrip, and I quote: "... The Osubi airport/airstrip is the best airport in terms of its runway in all airports in West Africa. Quote me. The German Engineers who were my Patients told me so."
The warning to Omo-Agege, Festus Keyamo, Sheriff Oborevwori is that there is life after Government. Their choices and deliberate actions will one day hunt them, like that of Ibori and Uduaghan who wasted 16 years as Governors of Delta State, is hunting them around today. They should not be carried away by the praises of sycophants because there is a pay back time coming, and all these praise singers who crowd them like bees will all varnish when they leave government. Then, it is people that they are now neglecting, that they will want to run to. But by then, it will be too late. Let the politicians that have ears, hear the cries of the people and do what is expected of them now that they are still in the corridors of power. No country or State can develop without the right infrastructure, and airport is a major modern transport infrastructure needed for such development. But having failed to address this, the likes of Uduaghan and Ibori are not qualified to seek for any other elective position in the State and country, not even as a Councilor.
Zik Gbemre.
January 13, 2021
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes