Sen.Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Delta, has promised early completion of the abandoned Koko-Ugbenu Road and Koko Township Stadium, if elected as governor in 2023.

Omo-Agege made the promise on Monday during the party’s Ward to Ward campaign in Koko, Headquarters of the Warri North Local Government area of the state.

The candidate, who is also the Deputy President of the Senate, said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government had abandoned many projects in the state, promising to tackle them as soon as he becomes the governor.

The lawmaker had also promised to establish a tertiary institution for the Itsekiri Nation and upscaled healthcare in Ijaw and Itsekiri communities of the Warri North.

“The Koko-Ugbenu Road, which the PDP-led government in the state had abandoned will be completed by me, if elected as a Governor.

“The Koko Township Stadium in which construction work started in 2008 and now abandoned by Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa-led administration will be completed by government.

“For our pregnant women and nursing mothers who have no access to healthcare facilities in the riverine areas, in spite of the fact that they have two doctors as governors.

“I commit to you, just as I did in Egbokoda that I will build a functional hospital to address your medical needs, if I am elected as the governor in 2023

“Koko does not look like the headquarters of a local government that has produced a governor. What your son as former governor failed to do for Koko and Warri North, I, your second son, will do it for you, if voted as governor in 2023,” Omo-Agege promised.

He said that these would correct the years of underdevelopment in in Ijaw and Itsekiri communities.

The senator, representing the Delta Central Senatorial District, said that the past and present PDP-led government in the state had failed to address the underdevelopment in Warri North.

He, however, urged the people of Warri North to vote for Bola Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the party, whom he described as their son-inlaw.

According to him, Tinubu has pledged to dredge the Escavos Bar to enable big vessels to access the Warri, Koko and Burutu ports.

He said that the gesture would enable the moribund ports to become functional and by implications create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.

Omo-Agege, however, urged the people to come out en masse and vote for APC, assuring them that their votes would count.

He assured them that the era of electoral materials hijacked and taken to somewhere else to thumbprint was over with the introduction of BVAS machine.

Earlier, the founding leader of APC in Delta, O’tega Emerhor, said that the Itsekiri Nation would be very fortunate to have two of their sons, Tinubu and Omo-Agege, as President and Governor in 2023.

He, therefore, urged the Itsekiri Nation to see the election of Tinubu, their son-inlaw and Omo-Agege, who is from Koko, maternally as their project by mobilising and voting for them and all other APC candidates.

Also, the Delta South Senatorial candidate of the party, Joel-Onowakpor Thomas, said that Koko he used to know as one of the business hubs in Delta, was today a shadow of itself because of years of neglect.

Thomas added that if Tinubu, Omo-Agege, himself and other APC candidates were voted into offices, they would ensure the construction of Koko-Ogheye Road and turn Koko to a Gateway city.