Gov. Okowa ls At Liberty To Choose His Successor

---------Engr Messiah Olaye

By Wilson Macaulay

Warri

As the debate of who becomes the next Governor of Delta State gets hotter, with 2023 drawing closer , and alot of storm gathering across the political landscape , Engr Messiah Olaye a renowned ljaw born Environmentalist based in Warri has Strongly opined that His Excellency , Senator Dr Arthur lfeanyi Okowa the Executive Governor of Delta State is at Liberty to choose his successor .

Engr Messiah Olaye Who made this observation yesterday in Warri during a media parley while speaking to a group of selected senior Journalists declared that too many Political stakeholders

have expressed their views forgetting

to phatom the fact that Governor Okowa having served two tenure meritorouslly by meeting the demands of Deltans

is imminently qualified to choose whoever succeeds him in Dennis Ossadebey House comes May 29th 2023.

Engr Messiah Olaye noted in his speech that right from inception ,all the past Governors in Delta State strived to Produce their successors adding that the one of Governor Okowa should not be different because a man with such technical know-how to drive the SMART Agenda which culminated into the Stronger Delta Vision should not be dictated to on who becomes his succesesor on the altar of godfatherism.

Engr Messiah Olaye emphasized that nobody should dictate to Governnor Okowa his succesesor or the Senatorial

district the next Governor should emerge from because he is at liberty to

choose whoever he deemed fit to hold forth for him to take Delta State to greater heights.

Continuing ,he remarked that the issue

of a successor is a very serious business, because a bad succesesor can make a missmeat of the glowing legacies Governnor Okowa is laboring to build today, stressing that no reasonable Governor Will allow somebody to Choose a successor for him .

He canvassed the view that no one or group of persons no matter how highly placed or connected they may be, do not have the sole prerogative to dictate to any sitting Governor who his successor should be, especially a person like Okowa who is a tested Political General with a very massive Political foot soldiers.

Engr Messiah Olaye who insisted that godfatherism is counter productive in our political history said,

l don't think Governor Okowa in his right sense would allow anybody to handpick a successor for him.

He added that Gov Okowa as a man of wisdom with a good depht of intellectualism should not play to the gallery of sycophants but he should rather stand his ground to do what is

in the best in nterest of the State by

choosing a candidate who can consolidate on his credible legacies.

Engr Messiah Olaye explained that the

idea of somebody trying to impose a successor on Governor Okowa is a joke tàken toó far because his Political wealth of experience spans from the the

grass root to the National level starting from Coucil Chairman to a Member of the State Executive Council before going to Senate and now Governor, adding that Okowa is a godfather

in his own right .

Hé warned that if Governor Okowa cave in to all these demands coming from

high profile politicians by allowing himself to be armtwisted , browbeated to take dictated Order on Who becomes his successor, he will live to regret it.

According to Engr Messiah Olaye,

there is need to allow Governor Okowa

to chop for a candidate Who Will take the reins of Government with an assurance that the Stronger Delta vision Which has Come to Stay Will be implemented in the new phase of Delta comes 2023.