DELTA SPEAKER BACKS NATIONAL DIALOGUE, BLASTS CRITICS

Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, has declared support for the planned national dialogue already set in motion by the Federal Government just as he took a swipe at critics of the conference.

Speaking in an exclusive chat with The Infra News in Asaba, the head of the legislative arm of Delta State government said a national dialogue had become most imperative to determine the future of project Nigeria.

In view of the jagged edges of the Nigerian State, he said, a national conference would be most appropriate at this time to discuss the areas of disagreements between constituent parts of the country and other ethnic nationalities.

OCHEI: MANIFESTING COURAGE & CONFIDENCE

In my over five decades on mother earth, I have never comprehended the import of the cliché ‘’never judge a book by its cover” until by divine providence, I met Rt Hon Victor Onyekachi Ochei, the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, during the recent Annual Conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Asaba. His inclination to listen, discuss and offer advice to the teeming and enthusiastic crowd, devoid of the Bonapartean carriage of c’est moi d’etat (I am the state) was a sort of curious paradox.

Though I was enthralled by his simplicity; I was determined to unearth this enigma, who had been severally and erroneously classified as haughty. My inquisitiveness provided an interesting vista on his innumerable accomplishments in diverse fields of human endeavour, which stemmed from his courtship with courage and confidence as core components in achieving success.

DELTA CENTRAL BY-ELECTION: UDUAGHAN, DELTA SPEAKER CONGRATULATE AGUARIAVWODO

Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly have congratulated the Chief Emmanuel Aguariavwodo, on his victory and emergence as the Senator-elect from the Delta Central Senatorial by-election.

Speaking during a victory party hosted for the PDP and Aguariavwodo inside his private residence in Warri, Governor Uduaghan advised the senator-elect to always remember his constituency when he gets to the senate, stressing that he must bring the dividends of democracy to the Urhobo people.

ONOKPASA DISMISSES CALL FOR OCHEI’S PROBE

Legal practitioner and public affairs commentator, Barrister Jesutega Onokpasa has condemned the call by the Delta State Youth Forum for Good Governance, for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe the recent training of Delta State House of Assembly members in the USA.

In a chat with journalists, Onokpasa described the group as a faceless bunch with no genuine address that will not surface to defend their wild and unreasonable allegation.

According to him, it ought to be clear to anyone with a genuine desire for good governance that our present democracy, being at an embryonic stage requires the regular training of principal actors for the purpose of the entrenchment of a deep sense of democratic culture aimed at actually delivering the dividends of democracy to the electorate as opposed to taking them for a ride at every turn.