While the Catholic Church and other Christian groups were praying for a country free of corruption and a country out of distress, Muhammadu Buhari came.

Nigeria’s economic outlook is gloomy. Her over dependence on crude oil as the only veritable source of foreign exchange earnings has become an albatross due to vandalisation of crude oil pipelines by militants in the Niger Delta region. This has made it impossible for the nation to meet its projected 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil production, thereby losing big money.

Right from its inception, hardly any week has gone by without one form of destructive criticism or malicious attack on the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led administration in Delta State appearing on print or social media. Some rather unfortunate developments of the last few weeks are the latest installment in this trend and have only served to expose the opposition in Delta as one utterly lacking in credibility.

Since his appointment over two years ago, this administrative colossus has embarked on projects that are not only visible but also beneficial to generations yet unborn.

Even if you do not subscribe entirely Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s vitriolic salvos in the political sphere, you cannot the fact that the vibrant governor who holds the banner of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has certainly raised the bar of governance in Nigeria’s centre of excellence state.