New Year: Omo-Agege Felicitates With Urhobo People, Canvasses Vote For APC, Buhari

Senator Ovie Omo Agege has sent new year congratulatory message to his Urhobo people, urging them to vote APC and President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming general elections.

Omo-Agege in a statement he personally signed and made available to BigPen Online on January 1, 2019 told his people that President Buhari administration has built a strong foundation for the nation, saying, “when you think of how far we have moved our country in the right direction in the past three and half years, you will realize that Nigeria’s best days are ahead of us under President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to him, “we owe it a duty to future generations, to make the right choices at the polls, to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari who has laid a new foundation for the new Nigeria we so much desire. It is only by so doing that Nigeria will continue to move forward.

Recalling that 2018 has been a remarkable year of achievement and progress for the Urhobo people, Senator Omo-Agege expressed confidence that 2019 will record greater success in our effort to achieve Urhobo greatness and free Delta state.

The Obaisi of Urhoboland said, “2019 would be a pivotal moment in our quest to engineer a better future four our country. It is a year citizens of this great nation would vote again to elect a President, Governors, Senators, Representatives and State House Members who will determine the course of the nation for the next four years.

He said that when President Buhari came into office in 2015, the economy was in a free fall, Boko Haram was controlling Local Government Areas and bombing churches, mosques, motor parks indiscriminately and the stealing of public funds was an acceptable norm at a time infrastructure were decaying.

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“Since then however, Buhari and his team had gone to work to pull the economy out of recession in a record time. Boko Haram has been degraded. Travel times on our roads have been reduced significantly. Power generation is up from below 3000 MW to over 7,000. New wealth is being created in the agricultural sector and the new economy.
Our worst time is now behind us, he enthused.

Continuing, he said, “We now have an economy that rewards hard work. But of course not everyone has prospered. Unemployment is still at unacceptable level, uninterrupted power supply is still elusive, killings are still occurring across the country. These challenges have made some people cynical and the feeling that the government is doing nothing to improve the lot of the people appears to be widespread.

The statement further reads; “That not withstanding, there is no reason to bring back those who created the mess in the first place. These are the same people who sold our national assets to themselves and their cronies and are now planning to sell NNPC again.

“The truth is that a lot of progress has been made, but it was not humanly possible to reverse all the policies and the 52-year trends in only four years, especially with an obstructionist National Assembly that was determined to frustrate the government.

“So when the same people who prevented us from moving forward faster than we did are now promising simple and quick fixes for complex problems they couldn’t solve for 16 years, you shouldn’t take them serious. If you think they are sincere in their criticism or think that they are committed to moving Nigeria forward, you are dead wrong. They are in this for one reason and one reason only, to maintain the status quo and keep their power and privilege at the expense of the common good.

The Delta Central senatorial district senator said: “This election is too important and the challenges ahead of us are too great to take it lightly. The stakes are so high that the consequences of making a wrong choice are more dire than you can imagine.

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“In our history we have seen that whenever we made progress, those who want the status quo to remain always push back and reverse the progress. That is what is happening now and we cant let history to repeat itself.

“In a couple of months you will have the chance to finish what you started four years ago. We cannot turn back now. So, as we prepare for the general elections, we owe it a duty to future generations, to make the right choices at the polls, to re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari who has laid a new foundation for the new Nigeria we so much desire. It is only by so doing that Nigeria will continue to move forward..

“And for the Urhobo people, I urge you to vote APC and Buhari who has shown that he is a friend of the Urhobo Nation”.