2019: Stop Heating Up the System, Okowa Tells APC

Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has cautioned members of the opposition parties especially the All Progressives Congress (APC) against making wild and unsubstantiated allegations about his administration's programmes and activities, saying he would never resort to propaganda on the government's achievements which were glaring for even the critics to see.

According to him, malicious fabrication in the media just to discredit a widely accepted and well-performing government because of interest in 2019 could only heat up the system unnecessarily and undermine peace and security.

"We have observed in recent times the continued mis information dished out by some leaders of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), in the state, in which they have painted pictures that are at variance with the realities on ground about our programmes and projects, both completed and ongoing," he said.

While maintaining that his administration had remained people-centred in line with its prosperity-for-Deltans mantra, he assured that he would not be distracted from that set vision notwithstanding the spate of partisan criticism and malicious propaganda being peddled by opposition politicians.

Speaking with news men at the Government House yesterday through his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Charles Ehiedu Aniagwu, the governor debunked insinuations in some quarters that the last tranche of the Paris Club refund might have been misapplied by the state government.

According to the governor, empowerment of the people through various entrepreneurial schemes remained one of the" star projects" of his administration since its inception about two years ago.

"Our greatest confidence in the support of our people is on our effort at creating entrepreneurs rather than job seekers", Okowa asserted ." In the last two years, over 6,000 entrepreneurs have been created through our job creation programmes and allied policies; and, the consequence of these is that over 30,000 persons now have their stories changed for the better ."