Governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, OON, has disclosed that governor Ifeanyi Okowa has received about N2.8 trillion in the last seven and half years from the Federation Account.
He said the money was outside Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) under Monday Onyeme, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy governorship candidate, who was his staff and was “bringing Christmas rice”, when he (Gbagi) was a minister.
Gbagi, the largest private investor in the state, regretted that poverty and unemployment were not tackled even as agriculture, industry, housing and other sectors were neglected.
Gbagi, a former Chairman, Delta Development Property Authority (DDPA), spoke recently at a meeting organized by the Catholic Youth Organization of Nigeria, (OLEH REGION), Warri Diocese, held at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ozoro, Isoko north local government area of the State.
According to him, “Delta State Government in the past seven and a half years received N2.8 trillion as revenue from the Federation Account outside IGR. This is unprecedented in the revenue profile of the state since its inception.
“As we speak today, Delta State is owing N387 billion despite receiving about N2.8 trillion. Worst still, the roads does not show the road of a State that had received that type of money. Even the faces of these children in this church does not replicate a State where such money has been received.
“My believe is that if you continue to sit down here and pretend that all is well, there is serious danger that is steering at us in the election that is coming in Delta State.
“Somebody who calls you a fool and you agree that you are a fool, it’s regrettable. This election that is coming, they will come to you because you have PVCs, they will give you N10, 000, N20, 000 or N30, 000 as the case maybe.
“At the end of the day after receiving that money, they have succeeded in using that little money to buy all that you believed in for eight years”, he lamented.
