Delta State governorship candidate of the All People’s Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has taken the state administration to task over the collapse of a building under construction at the Stephen Keshi Township Stadium, Asaba, the state capital.
Omo-Agege, who is also the Deputy Senate President, expressed pain at the nonchalance of the contractors engaged in the construction site. Three casualties of the incident are reportedly in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital.
He said that the character and attitude of the contractors were a reflection of the overall character of the Ifeanyi 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.
He stressed that lives of the people of the state and other Nigerians seemed to have lost value under Okowa because of “selfish and narrow considerations, ineptitude when engaging professionals, and even in the observation of safety measures at project sites and across the state”.
The APC governorship candidate questioned if the Peoples Democratic Party-led state government was meeting financial obligations to contractors, stating that the 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.
He expressed sympathy to those impacted, not only in this case, but by “Okowa’s shoddy project governance in the state”, and prayed for quick recovery.
Omo-Agege assured that such ugly incidents would be a thing of the past as soon as he becomes the state governor , and urged the people to give the APC the needed support in the 2023 general elections.
