Delta 2023: Okowa Counsels Urhobo On How To Produce Governor

In his first public indication of the prospect of having an Urhobo successor, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has charged the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU to help prune the number of aspirants to enable the ethnic nationality manage its way in the 2023 governorship race.

Okowa spoke at Uvwiamuge, Agbarho, Delta State, during the UPU Congress and Award ceremony as part of activities marking the 90th Anniversary of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide.

“When there are too many sons and daughters in a race, it creates its own challenge and I believe that the elders have understood this. There is a need to trim down and I believe that the time is now,” Governor Okowa said.

Charging the Urhobo to build bridges to enable it achieve its quest, Governor Okowa said:

“I don’t believe that we must fight everything through; sometimes a kind word or a conversation can help you to get to where you want to be. I want to appeal to our sons and daughters who seek to be governor.

“It is usually best when you approach it on the basis of friendship. It is usually best that we are choosy on the kind of words that we use in public so that we don’t start any round of fights.

“No matter how provoked, any person aspiring to the position of leadership must learn to control his anger and speak peacefully to people because in doing so, he attracts friends to himself”, Okowa stated.

Governor Okowa used the occasion to charge the Moses Taiga led leadership of the Urhobo Progruess Union, UPU to build on the successes laid by his notable predecessors just as he commended the UPU on its plans to establish a microfinance bank to citizenry.

President-General of UPU, Olorogun Moses Taiga, had said:

“This moment 10 years shy of a century ago, our clairvoyant forefathers saw today and founded what was then the Urhobo Brotherly Society in Warri on Nov. 3, 1931.

“That society metamorphosed into UPU in the course of our sojourn as a people. The UPU was founded in time of crisis occasioned by change birthed by the phenomenon of colonialism.

“Just as our forefathers did, we the Urhobo of 2021 must also interrogate our today and contemplate our tomorrow and begin to work our ways through currents of hope and land at the shores of the Promised Land.”

The ceremony was attended by all Urhobo traditional rulers, speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori; Chairman Ibru Organisation, Chief Oskar Ibru; Chief Isaac Akpoveta, Senator Ighoyota Amori, Senator Emmanuel Aguariavwodo, Chief Fred Majemite, Comrade Reuben Izeze and others.

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