The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has promised to address the perennial flooding and incessant attacks on local farmers by suspected herders in the state.
Omo-Agege made the promise on Tuesday during the party’s ward-to-ward campaign visit to Uwheru, Ewu-Urhobo and Evwreni in Ughelli North and Ughelli South Local Government Areas of the state.
He said if elected governor, he would find a permanent solution to the perennial flooding that has been ravaging some parts of the state.
Omo-Agege, who represents Delta Central Senatorial District, said that he would complete the abandoned Arhawharien/Okparabe Bridge project as governor.
The APC governorship candidate said that his administration would appoint an ombudsman that would directly report to him on issues of the the incessant killings resulting from the herders/farmers clashes.
“As one of the first steps to end the frequent killings resulting from herders/farmers crisis in the state, my administration will appoint ombudsman who will report to me directly on the issue.
“I will appoint a Special Adviser, who will be liaising with both the farmers and the herdsmen. The era where they will be depriving our people and driving them from their farms will be over,” he promised.
Omo-Agege eulogised the late Sen. Pius Ewherido, who passed on in 2013 as a serving senator, describing the deceased as a statesman who brought quality representation to Delta.
The APC candidate, who visited the graveside of the late Delta Central lawmaker, assured the people that the late Ewherido’s political ideas and aspirations for a better Delta, Urhobo Nation and Nigeria, would be sustained and achieved through him as governor.