The passion for freedom is on the rise there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for Deltans to undertake come March 2nd 2019, than to deliver our beloved state from the hands of those witch doctors in Government House in Asaba. We are free people we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom in our sister’s state of Edo and Ondo state.
We do not seek to be violent but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness as it is clear that a State which other can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a treat to the well being of all Deltans.
I do not proposed to say many words here but the time has come when action rather than words is required.
Providence has provided us with a man who is the face of this new spirit in the opposition that we are tapping into Hon. Victor Ochie, a man that has been there and has seen it all, a man that was lied to and deceived who left them and joined the opposition to deliver his people just like Moses in the Bible and truly like Moses, he never returned to these oppressors of our State instead he remained in the opposition. Bid me to introduce to you the person of Hon. Victor Ochie.
Victor Ochie hails from Onicha-olona in Aniocha North LGA of Delta State. Born 25th February, 1969 in Kano, he attended Methodist Primary School and St. Thomas secondary school respectively in Kano. And later proceeded to the University of Benin, Benin City where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (B.Sc) in Chemical Engineering after which he went for the mandatory National Youth Service at Ondo State.
He late earned the Master of Science Degree in Corporate Governance from Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kindom. He also obtained certificates in Good Governance, Effective Legislating and Improving Secondary School Education from the famous Oxford University, University of California and the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Education respectively.
He obtained a Law Degree (LLB from the Delta State University (DELSU) he also earned the MBA Degree in 1996. He made his first foray into business by printing calendar and other memorabilia. He confronted the entrepreneurial challenges in Nigeria and ventured fully into self employment by founding DavNotch Nigeria Limited.
A company in which within a fourteen year-span grew in leaps and bounds with more than two hundred and fifty (250) direct staff, including foreign experts of various competences. In the political terrain Victor Ochie is seen as a rare Chemistry of integrity and tenacity of purpose.
He cut his political teeth in 2003 where he emerged as the representative of Aniocha-North Constituency and later, deputy minority leader of Delta State House of Assembly, on the platform of the United Nigeria People’s Party, UNPP. A position he held till 2006. In his second bid for elective office he joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and got re-elected on the party’s platform into the state legislature.
He became Chairman of the House Committee on Education till the end of the fourth assembly of the Delta state legislature. He contested in the 26th April, 2011 Election and was re-elected into the state Legislature for a third term. He was elected by his colleagues as Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly.
And till date the longest serving speaker in the history of the Delta State House of Assembly having served for two (2) years and nine months (6th June, 2011-18th march, 2014).
Hon. Sir, I come to you in the words of Mordecai as recorded in the Holy Bible of the Book of Esther 4 verse 14 “for if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to Deltans from another person who knows whether thou art come to the opposition for such a time as this.
Now that it has been made public that our matter was never their matter, as reflected in the over #8,000 000 000.00 naira Delta State is owing, in the non- payment of LGA workers Salaries, starvation of pensioners, bad road and electricity supplies even insecurity.
We shall stand at the bar of history that the responsibility of delivering Deltans lies on the shoulders of one man Hon. Victor Ochie. I fear that he may not be able to reject and avoid this responsibility knowing that his candidacy will give confidence to the opposition and pause to those who would want to exploit our state for their selfish purposes the passion of freedom is on the rise, we resolved that the continuity of this cabal in our State must stop and come to an end, come 2nd march, 2019.
I utter this word with the deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart, let every Deltan rally round Victor Ochie, every quarrel should be forgotten, all rancour depart let all of us rally round this glorious hero and give the last blow to the crumbling edifice of this ruling cabal.
Concluding Part…..
By Ejiro Patrick.
