Why Isoko should produce the next senator in 2019 – DANMOTECH

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Kelvin Ohoror

The founder of Danmotech foundation, Engr. Daniel Omoyibo has advanced reasons why the Isoko ethnic nationality should produce the next senator to represent the Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly come 2019.

Engr. Daniel Omoyibo, who is a frontline business man and a renowned philanthropist and popularly called Danmotech disclosed this recently while speaking to some journalists at Oleh, the headquarters of Isoko south local government area of Delta state. He observed and noted that since the inception of this republic in 1999, Isoko has done only one term in the senate; that is from 1999 to 2003, when chief Mrs. Stella Omu served as chief whip at the red chambers, and thereafter, James Manager of the Ijaw stock took over and has done four consecutive tenures till date.

“On the other hand, our other neighbour in the senatorial District, the Itsekiris have done two terms as governor through Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and as such should naturally allow the Isoko to pick the senatorial ticket this time around.”

According to Engineer Omoyibo, the Isoko nation as a major oil producing ethnic nationality deserves to be treated fairly in the allocation of political offices and mega projects within the senatorial district. In addition, Isoko’s population is more within the district despite the fact that a large chunk of our people are ceded to Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa state and Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta state.

He then called on “our Ijaw and Itsekiri brothers to allow justice and equity to prevail this time around adding that to do otherwise will be both oppressive and against the spirit of good neighborliness as dictated by the Holy writs.”

The business Magnate averred that the Isoko nation has an array of eminently qualified and experienced hands who can fit into the senatorial slot and enjoined the Isoko political class to close ranks and intensify efforts in all fronts to ensure that Isoko is not schemed out of what naturally should be left for her in a Plata of Gold.

Engineer Omoyibo who disclosed that he does not have any particular candidate in mind for the senatorial seat however stressed the need for the Isoko nation to stand up and be counted at the right time and appealed to politicians to eschew bitterness and selfishness and embrace peace and generate ideas that will bring rapid development to Isoko land.