Delta APC, PDP Fight Over Stadium Repair, Gov Okowa’s Younger Brother’s Sports Expertise

The Delta State chapters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), are at war over the repairs done on the Warri Stadium by a church and the sports expertise of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s younger brother.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the war between the two parties in the state arose after the partial renovation work at the Warri City stadium embarked upon by Master’s Place International Church, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the state.

 The church had carried out the renovation ahead of the crusade it carried out at the stadium last weekend.

Arising from the development of a church repairing a public facility, the opposition APC had noted it as a failure on the part of the ruling PDP administration in the state.

The APC in a statement signed by its Director of Publicity, Dr Wilson Odafe Omene even while appreciating Pastors Korede and Esther Komaiya of the Master’s Place International Church, Effurun, for the repair work blasted the state government for putting sports administration in the hands of the younger brother of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who the APC claimed had no expertise in sports administration whom the party claimed neither has ‘passion for sport, expertise in sports nor known as someone who excelled in sports administration, anywhere or at any time.’

“Our party notes the impressive work the church has embarked upon at the long-abandoned stadium in the heart of the Oil City, even as we applaud the Body of Christ for stepping in where the deceitful administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has woefully failed.

“We cannot help but note that this is clearly a case of the church stepping in to fill a wide void, huge lacuna and gaping hole in governance on the part of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP-led Okowa administration’, APC said in its statement.

Responding, PDP in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza, chided the Delta APC for reportedly indulgencing in deliberate falsehood and dishonest practice as a ‘hopeless opposition party’ in its narrative on the stadium repair.

Disclosing that the church actually rented the stadium and paid the normal N500,000 rent fee to secure permission from the State Sports Commission to use it for its crusade, Osuoza lampooned the APC for failing to disclose what led to the partial renovation work done on a portion of the stadium by the church.

Osuoza claimed that after the payment made by the church, “wind storm, a natural catastrophe came, blew off the roof, and destroyed a portion of the facility.

“The Church then went ahead to repair the portion affected by the wind storm” adding that ‘when the Chairman, Sports Commission learned of this, he directed a refund of the N500,000 earlier paid by the church as rent fee for the facility,” he said.

Saying that the APC’s statement was laced with ‘falsehood’, Osuoza noted that the church could not have undertaken the repair of the entire stadium even as he said, ‘It only repaired the portion affected by the wind storm and got a refund of the payment made to the Sports Commission following the unfortunate wind storm that shattered the portion hired for the crusade.

He also dismissed as untrue claims that Mr Tonobok Okowa, a younger brother of the governor and the boss of the State’s Sports Commission was not an expert in sports administration, saying that under Tonobok’s watch, Team Delta won the National Youth Games five times out of six, won the National Sports Festival back to back in 2018 and 2021 respectively among others.

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