Commissioner for Information in
Delta State, Chief Patrick Ukah, on Tuesday said the state governor, Ifeanyi
Okowa, was not on vindictive mission against anyone.
The commissioner stated this at a
news conference in Asaba while reacting to the statement credited to the
immediate past governor of the state, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, in which he said
Okowa was on a vindictive mission.
“Since the recent defection of
former Gov. Uduaghan to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) where he was bred and fed, we have been inundated with
clandestine and visible plots”, Ukah said.
He said that Uduaghan’s actions
and utterances since he defected from the PDP were intended to drag the Okowa
administration into his (Uduaghan) dwindling political career.
Ukah said that people of the
state and Nigerians, who visited the state could testify that Uduaghan had no
legacies in his eight years in government.
“We challenge Uduaghan to tell
the world about the said legacy projects he claimed to have left behind which
this Okowa government has destroyed.
“The Uduaghan government’s free
healthcare programme had budgeted N700 million yearly to provide free
healthcare in urban cities and secondary health facilities only.
“He did not consider primary
healthcare facilities in rural communities where the real people that need free
healthcare most reside,” he said.
Ukah disclosed that Okowa had
since expanded the healthcare programme to cover all the people in urban and
the rural communities, “the real poor people’’.
He added that the governor also
ensured that all children under five years and pregnant women in the state
remained in the programme.
He said that the former
governor’s mission to unseat a hardworking Okowa was already a failed one.
“It is indeed amazing that the
same Uduaghan, who a few months ago endorsed Okowa for second term on account
of his (Okowa) outstanding performance in spite of the downturn in the economy
is trying to distract him.
“We hereby assure that Deltans
are quite impressed with the development efforts of the PDP in Delta as led by
Okowa and are prepared again to return Okowa for a second term in 2019,” Ukah
said.
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