NEW YEAR MESSAGE by the Executive Chairman of Ovia North East LGA, Hon. Collins Osamede Ogbewe

My Good People of Ovia North East, I felicitate with everyone, both at home and in the diaspora, it is with utmost gratitude to God and continuous thanks to your support and loyalty to our Government that I wholeheartedly on behalf of the entire Council welcome you to this great year!

The years have gone by and indeed many lessons have been learnt from challenges we faced even as many celebrations we have danced to by reasons of our collective victory as a people.
One thing that remains strongly bounded in our hearts is that we must as people irrespective of where we are and what levels or sector we function continue to improvise and discover new ways of doing things in other to explore new frontiers for our collective developments. And the government of Ovia North East is ready to lead in this direction.

The challenges of the past year have thought us as a people and as a government valuable lessons opening a new horizon of discovery and experience which now therefore behooves on us and My committed leadership to structurally re position the Ovia North East Administrative System for a continuous attainable and measurable progress both in governance and in the lives of all stakeholders irrespective of religion, tradition and political divides.

We must join efforts with Government both at the Federal and State levels to contribute our own bit in this year towards our respective growths and development.
Ovia North East is ours and we must join our concerted efforts to restore the once attained glory which is now fast becoming a mirage before our own very eyes.
To this ends, we call on all relevant stakeholders to support Government initiated projects and programs in this year and the years to come to bring back the old good days of togetherness and prosperity in our land.

Being one of the youngest leaders functioning in this capacity as council chairman, I stand committed to devotedly work with all stakeholders irrespective of our philosophies, to bring the much needed innovations and improvements to our administrative systems in the Local Government. For the good and quick restoration of our collectively shared glory.

To this regards, We plan to embark on several infrastructural Projects that will be of Social and Economic benefits to our Local Government which includes Building and renovation of Schools, Providing a Better and Affordable Health Care, Providing palliative to cushion the effect of hardship as resulted by economic mismanagement at the federal level and Human Development

I remain Committed to serve for the betterment of us all at Ovia North East Local Government Area. May God Bless and prosper us all in this year and beyond.....!

*Signed:*
**Hon. Collins Osamede Ogbewe **
*Executive Chairman of Ovia North East LGA*