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DELTA 2015: DELTA NORTH SENATORIAL LEADERS TO REACH OUT TO OTHER ZONES

Leaders from Delta North senatorial district have pledged to engage their counterparts from other zones towards making the emergence of the governor of the state in 2015 from the zone a negotiated exercise as they identified agriculture and a strong industrial base as critical factors for sustainable development of the state.

In a well attended strategic conference in Lagos at the weekend, stakeholders from the academia, political class and royal fathers outlined the road map to the election of a governor of the state from Delta North extraction in 2015, noting that a large array of competent, educated and experienced leaders are available to take the state to greater heights.

OCHEI: ENDURING FOOTSTEPS OF AN UNUSUAL PHILANTHROPIST

In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly.

In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant, is ideal.

Luckily, our subject-Rt. Hon. Victor Onyekachi Ochei, has both virtues( love and care) in the right proportion, in his kitty.

Long before he ventured into partisan politics (in lieu of which benefit-popular support, for instance- many of our elite today become emergency do-gooders for decoyed selfish reasons), or even dreamt of it, Victor Ochei had not only drawn up the skeleton of his acknowledgedly huge humanitarianism, but had actually began to give flesh to the sketch, by way of positive actions. Today, like the millipede’s legion legs on wet soil, Hon. Ochei’s humanitarian activities are firmly rooted in community service, sports, education, the media, infrastructure, etc.

OCHEI AND THE DELTA 2015 HOUNDS

The 2015 elections may be a year and several months away but in Delta State, the impression one gets is that the gubernatorial poll may well be holding tomorrow. While hardly anyone has publicly declared for the race, certain interested politicians are already at one another’s throats in what is fast deteriorating into a rat race to Government House.

My projection is that the acrimony with which various political gladiators are trying to actualize their ambitions may well lead to bloodshed in the period leading up to the election proper, a pointer to which is the dastardly attempt on the life of Engr. Victor Ochei, incumbent Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly. The failed assassination, a brazen act of terrorism, took place at Obomkpa, a town in Aniocha North Local Government Area, which Ochei represents at the Assembly, targeting him in what was a clear attempt to murder him in cold blood at an event at which he was engaging his constituents at a grassroots level.

EXPLOSION UPDATE: OBOMKPA YOUTHS PROTEST ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF OCHEI

The last may not have been heard of the botched assassination attempt on the life of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Onyekachi Ochei, when an explosion rocked the venue of a scheduled consultative meeting with party faithful at Obomkpa, Aniocha North LGA on November 1, 2013.

The latest in the series of events connected to the explosion occurred on Thursday, November 7, 2013 when angry youths, in their hundreds, stormed Delta State government House to protest what they regarded as a failed assassination plot against the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei.

OBOMKPA EXPLOSION: OCHEI IS MY POLITICAL SON – OKWUOFU

A political chieftain from Obomkpa community in Aniocha North LG of Delta state, Chief Nkem Okwuofu has strongly condemned the attempted assassination attempt on the life of the Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Onyekachi Ochei, during a consultation meeting with party faithful in Obomkpa town, on Friday Nov 1, 2013.

Chief Okwuofu, who made this declaration, while addressing newsmen at the Nigeria Union of Journalists Secretariat in Asaba on Wednesday November 6, 2013, said that it had become imperative for her to clear the air on the matter, especially against the backdrop of her recent interrogation by the Delta State Police Command in connection with the incident and the widespread speculations that she may have been fingered in the plot to assassinate the Speaker.

POLICE QUIZZED OKWOFU OVER OBOMKPA EXPLOSION

THE Police have quizzed the Chairman of the Delta State Local Government Commission, Mrs. Nkem Okwuofu over the recent cannon blast which allegedly targeted the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Chief Victor Ochei.

  Okwuofu, a native of Obomkpa, was detained at the State Police headquarters in Asaba for several hours Wednesday and later granted bail on self-recognition after the police obtained her statement over her alleged role in the blast.

OBOMKPA EXPLOSION: POLICE CONFIRM ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OCHEI’S LIFE

The Delta State Police Command yesterday confirmed that there was an assassination attempt on the life of Victor Ochei, the speaker of the state House of Assembly, penultimate Friday at Obomkpa in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state.

The state police command that made the confirmation through its spokesperson, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Lucky Uyabeme, also refuted an earlier statement credited to it in an online medium.

DELTA ASSEMBLEY WANTS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SPEAKER INVESTIGATED

The Delta House of Assembly on Tuesday called on security agencies in the state to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on its Speaker, Mr Victor Ochei.

The assembly passed the resolution in Asaba followed a motion by Mr Samuel Mariere, representing Ughelli North I Constituency.

Mariere criticised the assassination attempt, and said there was need for an urgent investigation to ensure that the perpetrators were brought to book.

He said if not for God, the story would have been a different one.

The motion was unanimously adopted.

MAN ARRESTED FOR PLANTING EXPLOSIVE UNDER DELTA SPEAKER’S SEAT

The police in Delta State have arrested a man in connection with the explosion that rocked the seat of speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Ochei, at a political meeting in the state at the weekend.

Two cannons exploded at the venue of the meeting at Obomkpa, Aniocha North Council Area of the state, while the speaker was acknowledging cheers from well wishers at the venue.

The seat of the speaker was specially clothed along with other special guests.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that Ochei’s seat was thrown meters up while a lady close by had her legs shattered.

DELTA SPEAKER SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, today escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb placed under his table exploded shortly before he sat down.
The event which occurred at Obomkpa in Aniocha North Local Government area – the Speaker’s constituency was a reception organized in honor of Ochei by a political group loyal to him.
Obomkpa is home to another strong politician Chief Mrs. Nkem Okwuofu, Chairman of Delta State Civil Service Commission who has a frosty relationship with Ochei.
Though Ochei escaped without bruises same cannot be said of others.

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.