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Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, has assured the people of the state of greater dividends of democracy in 2025, with a call for more prayers and support for his administration and the state.

He made the call in his New Year Message to the people in which he expressed gratitude to God for seeing Deltans and residents through 2024 and into 2025, remarking that last year was quite challenging for the state and the nation.

In the message contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba, Oborevwori thanked Deltans for their continued support of his administration in the past 19 months and reaffirmed his commitment to advancing the state through massive investments in infrastructure and human capital development.

He urged the people to remain prayerful and trustful that God would do new things for them and the state in the new year.

Governor Oborevwori, said: “With profound gratitude to God Almighty, I welcome you all to a brand new year, 2025. I join you all in giving thanks to God for His guidance, protection and provisions all through 2024.

“I appreciate immensely the unalloyed support and cooperation that our administration has enjoyed from Deltans, which has been a source of encouragement and strength to the government.

“2024 was a very difficult year but we thank God for navigating us successfully into a new year with hope and enthusiasm.”

The governor added that his administration had, in the last nineteen months, kept faith with his promises to the people, within available resources.

“With dedication and gratitude to God, my administration has, in spite of fiscal and other challenges in 2024, completed and inaugurated numerous key projects across the state,” he said.

He called on Deltans to continue coexist peacefully with their neighbours in order to enhance peace and security ,which, according to him, was a major thrust of his administration’s MORE agenda.

His words: “My dear people of Delta, I thank you all for the peace that we enjoy in the state, because no meaningful development can take place in an atmosphere of acrimony.

“Let us, therefore, continue to live in peace with our neighbours so that government can channel resources at its disposal to the development of our communities.

“By the grace of God, 2025 promises to be a year of God’s blessings for the state and our people. It is my prayer that the Almighty God will meet every Deltan and Nigerian at the point of their needs.

“Be assured that we will continue, as always, to ensure that Delta remains secured just as the provision of social services and completion of ongoing critical infrastructure in all parts of the state will be accelerated in the new year.

“On behalf of my family and the government, I truly appreciate Deltans for the cooperation we received from them in the past 19 months. Deltans have truly been very wonderful and supportive and we thank you for your prayers.”

Oborevwori said: “As the path of the just is like a shining light that shines unto the perfect day, it is our prayer that, as we exit 2024 and enter 2025, the Lord will continue to perfect our ways with amazing blessings and testimonies.

“We pray that God will continue to provide us with the resources to impact positively on the lives of our people, particularly the youths who are struggling through the very difficult situations that we have in our nation today.

“We thank God for the peace in the state and we want to assure our youths that we will stay focused on our advancing Delta agenda by providing the needed infrastructure that will attract investors to our dear state and also increasing the pace of our entrepreneurial programmes to better the lives of our people.”

Governor Oborevwori extended his best wishes for a prosperous New Year, expressing confidence that with collective effort and God’s guidance, Delta State would experience greater blessings and development in 2025.

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Tuesday, said his administration’s MORE Agenda had started impacting positively on the lives of citizens of the state.

Governor Oborevwori disclosed this in his remarks at the opening ceremony of the 5th edition of the Delta State Communication Workshop with the theme: Advancing Delta: Strategies for Public Communication and Effective Media Engagement held in Asaba, the state capital.

Represented by the State Commissioner for Information, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza, Governor Oborevwori challenged Government Spokespersons, Media appointees, Social Media Influencers and Media Partners to tackle propaganda and misinformation by showing Deltans the administration’s achievements.

According to him, “our projects, our accomplishments and our M.O.R.E Agenda is steadily impacting positively on the lives of Deltans and bringing the dividends of democracy to our people across the three Senatorial Districts of the state.

He said the three-day capacity building programme, designed to enhance the skills and overall efficiency of media appointees and partners in the current administration in the state, could not have come at a more auspicious time.

“The need to enhance the skills and overall efficiency of media appointees to the governor in the propagation, promotion and dissemination of the achievements, activities, policies, programmes and initiatives of our M.O.R.E Agenda, in its clearly defined components of Meaningful Development, Opportunities for All, Realistic Reforms and Enhanced Peace and Security, cannot be over emphasized.

“Your engagement and responsibilities as media personnel and partners with the Delta State Government, would, therefore, become even more expansive and comprehensive as we continue to deliver the pragmatic and life- impacting dividends of the M.O.R.E Agenda to Deltans.

“You must all be fully prepared for that in recognition and fulfillment of your critical importance, roles and responsibilities as government media personnel and partners, operating in the dynamic social media sphere.”

He reiterated that one of the major communication policy thrusts of his administration was to consistently support the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as he “continues” to deliver the Renewed Hope Agenda for the betterment of Nigerians, including Deltans.

“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the President of this country, is fully supporting our administration and it behoves on us, as Government media aides, partners and spokespersons, to ensure that our strategic communication engagements must reflect and support the President and reflect the policies, gains and advantages of the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

“It is only by doing this with sincere commitment that we can attract comprehensive benefits and goodwill from the Federal Government for our people.

“It is also important to emphasize, here, too, that as Government Spokespersons, Media appointees, Social Media Influencers and Media Partners, it is also the communication policy of this administration that the best and sure way to respond to negative propaganda is to consistently present and promote our projects, initiatives and the verifiable, impactful achievements of the M.O.R.E Agenda, in order to counter their propaganda and shut them up decisively.”

He lauded the Workshop Coordinator and Director- General of the Delta State Orientation and Communication Bureau, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, for sustaining this Communication workshop.

The Secretary to the State Government, Dr Kingsley Emu, said strategic communication was apt for any government, adding that the Oborevwori administration had embarked on the construction of 513 road projects across the state.

Dr Emu added that over 250,000 Deltans had been empowered by the State Government under the various result areas of the D-CARES programme.

On his part, the Commissioner for Works (Rural and Riverine Roads), Mr Charles Aniagwu, said Dr. Fred  Latimore Oghenesivbe had been consistent in promoting the state and had done it quite well during the previous administration and advised participants to give all their attention in order to benefit from the training.

The Chief Trainer at the workshop, Professor Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika of the University of Lagos, said the workshop was a celebration of commitment to advancing media and communications in Delta State, adding that effective communication remained the bedrock for transformative governance.

In his welcome remarks, the Director-General of the State Bureau of Orientations, Mr Fred Latimore, said the capacity training workshop started in 2019 during the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and commended Governor Sheriff Oborevwori for approving the 2024 workshop.

Oghenesivbe assured that modules had been designed purposely to equip the participants with knowledge to do their jobs effectively.

The Chief Press Secretary, CPS, to the Governor of Delta State, Sir Festus Ahon, Sunday, said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori was fully focusing on the governance and development of the state.

Ahon stated this in Asaba in reaction to a report credited to one of the Executive Assistants, New Media, to the Governor, Mr Felix Ofou, in response to former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s recent diatribe on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori at an APC event in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

The CPS, in the statement, frowned that a personal article written by Mr Felix Ofou was being mischievously and deliberately misinterpreted by a section of the media, adding that, contrary to perception, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori had a harmonious working relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Ahon said, “the Governor has constantly urged Deltans and other Nigerians to continue to give support to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu”, stressing that “if the President fails”, he, as a governor, would have failed, too.”

He said this was the same view Governor Oborevwori lucidly expressed at the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU event on Saturday 7th December, at which event, he said, inter alia, “I want to appeal to Urhobo nation today, I am saying it here, I am an Urhobo man and am Governor of Delta State.

“But I will tell you today whether you like it or not, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is supporting this administration. God has made him the President as God has made me the Governor of Delta State.

“So, as you are supporting me, support him because if he fails, I will fail, but by the grace of God, he will not fail and I will not fail, too.

“Mr President has appointed our sons and daughters into various positions. He did not appoint people from outside the state. God has given him victory and God has given me victory; you people should support us to succeed”.

Ahon added, “it is, therefore, imperative to state categorically that, as Chief Press Secretary and official spokesman of the Governor of Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori did not, and has never, expressed such views on Mr President’s economic policies.

“The general public is, therefore, advised to jettison such misleading reports as they do not reflect the views of the Governor who is working very hard to provide good governance for Deltans and other residents of the state, despite the present economic challenges faced by the citizens”.

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Thursday, disbursed financial grants to 2,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, in the state to grow their businesses and cushion the effects of the inclement economic realities in the country.

Speaking during the disbursement ceremony of the MORE Business Upscale Programme (MORE BIZ-UP) held at the Events Centre, Asaba, organised by Delta State Job and Wealth Creation Bureau, Governor Oborevwori said the gesture was designed to empower the entrepreneurs to cushion effects of the economic hardship in the country.

He said: “The MORE Business Upscale Programme, otherwise known as MORE Biz-Up, is one of the job creation programmes initiated in line with the MORE Agenda of my administration.

“As the name implies, MORE Biz-Up is aimed at providing stimulus in the form of financial grants to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises [MSMEs] in the state in order to grow their businesses and to cushion the effects of the harsh economic realities in our nation.

“Like other job creation programmes of the state government, such as the D-CARES, M.O.R.E Grant, M.O.R.E WESAP, among others, the programme is strategically planned and designed as a testament of my administration’s commitment to empower small businesses, fast-track economic growth and to foster development in the state.”

He charged the beneficiaries, to take the knowledge garnered from the M.O.R.E. Business School component of the programme to advance their businesses and leverage on networking amongst participants.

Governor Oborevwori, said: “Your success as entrepreneurs is crucial to the economic development of our state and which will further inspire other young entrepreneurs to follow in your footsteps.

“Therefore, I urge you to work hard to sustain your businesses. We shall continue to support your entrepreneurship journey. Out of a pool of over 10,000 applicants, you are blessed to be among the chosen.

“The 2,000 beneficiaries of the programme gathered here today are in two groups- 1,000 business owners drawn from a database of fresh applicants who have never benefitted from state government’s job creation and entrepreneurship programmes, and 1,000 past beneficiaries who were verified by the Directorate of Youth Monitoring and Mentoring.

“I expect you to make judicious use of the grant by applying it wisely and responsibly to your business. It is my earnest prayer that your businesses grow from strength to strength.”

Earlier, the State Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Mr Ifeanyi Egwuyenga, said the strategy of the MORE Business Upscale Programme focuses on stimulating economic growth by equipping entrepreneurs with advanced business knowledge, and injecting financial stimulus in the form of grants into small businesses.

Egwuyenga said: “This new phase of grants under the MORE programme is a clear evidence of our government’s unwavering commitment to nurturing entrepreneurs. In turn, this drives economic growth and advances the ‘Advancing Delta’ mantra of the MORE Agenda”.

In their separate goodwill messages, Chairman of Artisans Association in the state, Ifeanyi Abanum, and the state ALGON Chairman and Chairman of Okpe Local Government, Hon. Isaiah Esiovwa, thanked Governor Oborevwori for the various empowerment programmes of his administration which, they said, had brought succour to Deltans.

The duo of Abanum and Esiovwa, therefore, urged beneficiaries of the MORE Bizup programme and other empowerment programmes of the state government to make judicious use of the facilities giving to them to strengthen their entrepreneurial drive so that they could contribute meaningfully to the development of the state.

Responding on behalf of beneficiaries, Mr. Meshack Okeoghene, thanked Governor Oborevwori for empowering them, adding that the state government’s gesture would serve as a catalyst that would stimulate the growth of their respective businesses.

Delta State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, screened and confirmed Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori’s nominees for appointment into various commissions, boards and agencies of the Government.

The nominees were screened during the plenary session of the assembly in Asaba.

Those screened for the State Sports Commission were Mr Joshua Oborevwori as Chairman, Mr Samuel Sodje, Mrs Henrietta Iheakonyen, and Mrs Oghale Ofremu as members.

The Assembly also screened and confirmed the nominees for the State Traffic Management Authority.

The list included Peter Idion as Chairman, Mr Okiemute Essien, Director General, Mr Ogagaoghene Otikpo and Mr Charles George as members.

Also screened and confirmed were the nominees for the State Public Procurement Commission.

The nominees were Mr David Igodo as Chairman, Mr Edwin Abraka, Director General, Mr Venture Daniels and Mr Fyncountry Tamaraebi as members.

The assembly also screened and confirmed Mr Sunday Ebireri as Chairman of the State House of Assembly Service Commission, while Chief Moses Onowu was screened as member.

The Speaker of the House, Mr Dennis Guwor, advised the nominees to live up to their responsibility and work diligently in the positions they were nominated to serve.