many questions to be answered

God will see Us

please i am looking for job in asaba pls.God will help our city.

Okowa is the worst performing governor in Nigeria. His has the highest number of cars on convoy when going out. With its large revenue from various sources, The state is owning workers salaries since March.

Ibori and Osama Bin Uduaghan are saints when been compared to Okowa. The government in delta is only for politicians.

May19th:
Delta State is a unique state with diverse ethnic groups and languages, just as Nigeria with it’s diversity, the state is a smaller version of everything Nigeria with three major ethnic groups. The politics of the state is equally played along tribal lines as a result of the zoning formula which has made it possible for each Senatorial district to produce a State governor.

For many years the agitation for an Anioma governor overshadowed the search for a performing state governor, power brokers in the state has planned the future of the state in advance since 1999. Considering the fact the state capital is Asaba, in Delta north senatorial district and Anioma city, one would naturally expect an Anioma governor to turn the state especially Asaba the state capital into Dubai.

It is interesting to note that the state is the third richest in Nigeria falling behind the likes of Lagos and Rivers state. Delta State is unarguably one of the largest oil producing states in Nigeria and the heart of Niger Delta. With a GDP of US$16,749 and a bright prospect of a renewable energy giant, the state have the potential to attract investor locally and globally.

Unfortunately the State have a governor whose only qualification is that he is from Anioma, the anointed Senatorial district blessed with the opportunity of ruling the state for the next 7years, all thanks to power sharing and the PDP zoning formula.

Asaba is a relatively a small town with only a major road running from north to south and some few tared roads connecting some streets. Restructuring the state capital and making it a beautiful suburb is the easiest job a governor can do within a short period, for years the Anioma people has yearned for one of their own to govern the state and develop Asaba into a haven of fun; their prayers was answered in 2015 when Governor Ifeanyi Okowa worn the general election. Many including me was with great expectation thinking Asaba will be great under his watch, but then things just got worse.

Darkness in Asaba

Immediately Governor Okowa took office, the first thing i noticed was that the state capital which used to be lightened up with beautiful street lights went dark. The street light project was the brainchild of former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan which to a large extent made movement at night safe, free and fun.

Okowa is from Agbor town, an ancient city larger than Asaba with rich history, but living in Agbor is a nightmare as a result of darkness caused by lack of street lights, ban on motorcycle movements at night as well as heavy presence of soldiers in the town, with a governor coming from Agbor now governing the state, Asaba and even Warri dramatically denigrated into another big and boring Agbor, transfering darkness to all other town in the state.

Well considering Deltans can still move in darkness everyone adapted to other source of illumination, life continued as we all got used to living in darkness, but then this happened….

Ban on Keke at Night ended freedom of movement

Just when you think things cannot be more worse, Governor Okowa placed a ban on the use of commercial tricycles and motorcycles in major cities of the state between the hours of 10.00PM to 6:00AM, effectively taking freedom of movement away from Deltans. If you don’t have a car, never border coming to Asaba for relaxation or fun, you will be confined in your home as soon as it is 10.00pm, trust the Nigerian police, violating this law will lead to stories that touch.

Asaba is now taken back to the stone age, reminds me of the village i grew up as a child. What else can you do in a town in darkness and no movement at night?

Recruitment of tugs

Well you can call them Delta State Traffic Management Authority (DESTMA), the men on blue uniform but in the real sense of it those are tugs recruited to harass Deltans during the day. They stay at every major road in the town, their job is suppose to be traffic direction and restoring order on the roads, but their activities has been harassment, intimidation and any other job the boss chose to assign to them.

The project of DESTMA is a way of compensating the tugs that played a roll in doing some dirty jobs during the general elections, whether a tug wears a blue uniform of a suite, a tug will always be a tug.

After putting the state in darkness and taking away free movement at night, well the next job is place some kind of movement restriction during the day, a job the DESTMA guys are doing perfectly.

When it rains in Asaba, even the government house is not spared from flood

As small as Asaba is, one would normally think that a working drainage system is a walk in the park, but with an Anioma governor in charge, it becomes even easier, unfortunately nothing has changed since Governor Okowa took office. When it rains in Asaba, the flood covers the roads, even the government house fence is not safe because the water level will be high above the heel.

Other areas are such as Okpanam road, DLA, Anwai road, and some part of Nnebisi road becomes messy with only an hour heavy rainfall.

Who will make Asaba A Dubai

The question i want to ask now is if the Anioma son cannot develop Asaba, the state capital into what it should be, then who will? other state governors before Gov. Okowa has been blamed for ignoring Asaba, Governor Ibori made his town Oghara a little haven in his time, justifiably cool, charity they say begins at home.

For a governor whose town is a big boring town, and now presiding over a state with the worst state capital in Nigeria, one will be forced to think Asaba will very well remain this way for at-least the next 3 years.

http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/08/02/gov-okowa-killed-nightlife-asaba/

okowa is the most qualified among the contestants. There's no doubt about that. The fact that you brought up Anioma into your write up shows you're a tribal warrior. Probably still nursing the wound from the loss of your candidate. Sorry OO

Not from Delta nor Asaba. But read article on under performance governors okowa name appears. I respect Ambode, he beats my imagination. Others should learn from Ambode

gbaskiboy:
Not from Delta nor Asaba. But read article on under performance governors okowa name appears. I respect Ambode, he beats my imagination. Others should learn from Ambode

What's the criteria used to measure his performance in the article