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By Jimitota Onoyume

WARRI—Niger Delta activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has led hundreds of Itsekiri women in Warri, Delta State, on the platform of Warri women Consultative Assembly, to call for the re-election of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for a second term.

Lori-Ogbebor, in an address read by her aide, Mr. Kennedy Awani, yesterday at the rally, said Governor Okowa had revisited and completed several abandoned projects in Itsekiri communities, adding that he had shown that he truly deserved a second term to effectively develop the state.

She recalled how the governor constructed a jetty in her Ajigba community through the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, within a space of three months, stressing that Okowa had been focused on developing communities since he came on board as governor of the state.

She said: “I took a picture of Olere Creek; this is an area which produces the wealth of this country. Most of the oil in Delta State comes from Dibi/Olero creek. Yet these people have no water to drink and no hospitals.

“I took my complaints to Governor Okowa and with the picture of abandoned water projects, hospitals that had been done halfway and deserted.

“You could see the pity in his eyes and he said to me, ‘I will do it. Give me two months, I will deliver’. Ubeji Road had been neglected for years, he is nearly completing it. It is for these reasons we are backing him.

“We have an unwritten agreement where the governorship is rotated among the ethnic groups.

“It is the turn of Delta North ,where Okowa comes from. We must give him the opportunity to complete his term for peace sake.”

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