Altercation Over President’s Asset Declaration Unnecessary

As reactions continue to trail the assetdeclaration of President Muhammdu Buhariand his Vice, Pro Yemi Osinbanjo, the DeltaState Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, on Sunday inBenin declared that the hue and cry over thePresident’s asset declarationwas totallyunnecessary, saying “what he has declared washis personal wealth which ught not to be thebusiness of the Nigeria populace”.The Governor said Nigerians should be moreconcern about the President’s campaign promise ofchange which he noted should be paramount to thepeople, adding that Buhari’s asset declaration was awelcome development, especially when he is thefirst President of Nigeria to make his asset a publicissueGov. Okowa who spoke to newsmen in Benin, theEdo State Capital at the 13th year Anniversarycelebration of Rock of Ages Christian AssemblyInternational Incorporation also disclosed that inspite of the huge debts he inherited from theimmediate past administration of GovernorEmmanuel Uduaghan, his government had put inplace measures that will bring respite to thepeople by restructuring its expenditure to savecost.According to him, “I don’t want to comment onPMB asset declaration because, assets declarationis personal, the man has declared his asset which isa welcome idea that he has come out to do. But hispersonal wealth and all he has at the moment isnot supposed to be the business of Nigerians. Theonly thing that we should concern about is what isgoing to be his output in government that is wherewe should concentrate on” Okowa whose election isbeing challenged at the Tribunal said God beenmerciful and faithful to him said it is not yet uhuruand urged Christians to pray for the continue unityof the Country.He also admonished the Rock of Ages ChristianAssembly congregation to pray fervently in orderto heal the land of all the challenges bedeviling it,just as he called on Nigerians to desist fromraining abuses on its leaders.“My Trust in God can never wane because God hasmanifested in my life. I can see the manifestationof God in this church and the same way God hasgrown this church, God can also grow in your lives.“When I listen to our father, Pastor Omobudethere is still a lot of Jordan to cross, there is still alot land to be conquered, please take note of thatso that you will not relax that we have arrived. It isa time to pray more, not only for the church butfor Nigeria and all the states in this country.“We are in a very difficult time nationally and whenthe nation is in trouble there is a knock on thedoor of the Christians because the book of Psalm121 says I look on to hills here from where comethmy help. It is time call on the name of the Lord inrighteousness for God to heal the land and get usout of where we are today.“We have so much depended on oil and the pricesare down and things are going bad but I know whenChristian rise up and call upon His name inrighteousness things will get better. It is notenough to come to church to rain abuses on ourleaders that they have not done this or that.The devil is working had so we have to work hardso that our leaders will not give their hearts to thedevil.On his administration’s inherited debt, Okowa said,“We are gradually stabilizing, by the grace of Godwe have to find a way to do things in such amanner that it can actually bring some kind ofrespite to the people. In the last three months wehave tried to restructure our debts, we have alsotried to restructure our expenditure in such amanner that we are actually able to stabilize thegovernment.