Omo-Agege Rebuffs Explanation, Drags Okowa Over Asaba Stadium Incident

Delta State governorship candidate of the All People’s Congress (APC), and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege,  has taken the Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa led PDP administration in the State to task over what state officials have described as the partial collapse of a building under construction at the Asaba Stephen Keshi Township Stadium.

GWG.NG had earlier reported the commissioner for information, Mr Charles Aniagwu debunking claims that three persons died in the incident.

However, speaking shortly after the  incident, Omo-Agege expressed pain at what he described as the nonchalance of the contractors engaged in the construction site.

He said the character and attitude of the contractors were a reflection of the overall character of the Okowa administration, which he described as cold and unfeeling.

Omo-Agege recalled a similar incident, a few years ago, in the same Stadium, when an overhead water tank collapsed during a live sporting event and killed one person, much to the embarrassment of Deltans.

According to him lives of Deltans and other Nigerians in the state seem to have lost value under the present administration in the state because of what he described as the selfish and narrow considerations. He also traced the problem to ineptitude in the engagement of professionals,  and even in the observation of safety measures at project sites and across the state.

He questioned if the State government under the Okowa was meeting financial obligations to contractors, stating that non release of funds could be an additional cause of the shoddy jobs that litter the state, and which now endanger the lives of Deltans and others within the state.

Omo-Agege assured that ugly incidents as the Asaba Stadium incident will be a thing of the past as soon as he becomes governor of Delta State,  and urged all Deltans to give the APC the needed support in the 2023 general election.

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