Governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Prof. Pat Utomi says four years was enough for him to develop a masterplan that will fix and transform the state to the envy of others in Nigeria.
The former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress stated that he was committed to serving only one term of four years if elected in the 2019 general elections, adding that it would be a thing of natural justice to give the ticket of the APC to an aspirant from his Delta North Senatorial District to battle incumbent Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He promised that in two years of his administration, he would have put the state on the path of development that subsequent administrations would build on, adding that his government would focus critical fundamentals such as good education that will help drive the process.
He said, “The development process is such that if you get it right, you get ownership of it and people owned the process. Two years is enough to make it irreversible. If it belongs to the people, nobody will be able to take it and that is what is important.
“There are a number of cities that are famous in the world for unbelievable development. When I first passed through Dubai several years ago, it was desert village, but today, the progress happened so fast that it is not reversible. Singapore was just a fishing village that was nowhere near Burutu and today, it is the highest in per capita income in the world.
“My political life is about ideas, commitment towards serving the people with passion because anything we can dream, we can make up. It’s the absence of a clear dream and passionate commitment that has kept us back. People who are not as smart as us have made so much progress. So, what we need is smart political leaders and this kind of engagement provides us such opportunity for that.”