He is one of the few radical journalists in the Nigerian media industry with bias for investigative journalism cutting across media divides. Sunday Onyewonsa, is the Director-General, of the Delta Democratic Alliance, DDA, an advocacy group for good governance with its hallmark in grassroot mobilisation, citizens enlightenment, education and sensitisation. Domicile in the Niger Delta region, with its base in Delta State. DDA worked to ensure victory for Dr Ifeayin Arthur Okowa, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the gubernatorial election. In this interview, Onyewonsa says; Governor Okowa has started well in his drive to achieving his dream of prosperity for all Deltans and sure the governor would end well and sundry issues. Excerpts...

How did the Delta Democratic Alliance, DDA settled for Senator Ifeayin Okowa, amongst the hordes of aspirants then in Delta State?

The Delta Democratic Alliance, DDA, is a group with membership drawn across professional divides spread all over the state. At the risk of immodesty, ours is a group of brilliant, intelligent men and women who can hold their own anywhere in the world.
We identified Dr Okowa as a man with passion for the people of Delta State, detribalized, intelligent, honest and above all, Godly. Of all the contestants then, Okowa was the best and remains the best. He's a brand very easy to market and not a hard sell. In all of these, his antecedents gave him a strong power of bargaining and on the vehicle of logic and common sense, DDA unanimously adopted him as it's candidate with whom it will work from start to finish. ‎Here we are, DDA is proud to associate with a team that is fast tracking prosperity for the good people of Delta State.

What are those things that make you think the governor has started well and also sure that he would end well; could that be a prophesy?

The position of DDA is no prophesy but an obvious fact. It's a fact that governor Okowa is building like a football coach, a formidable team; fotifying ‎his political environment for the tasks ahead. A look at the first batch of appointments made by this rare gem speaks volume of a political colossus poised to lead his people out of abject poverty into a world of prosperity in both human and material developments.
Starting from the appointment of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Hon. Festus Ovie Agas, through ‎Festus Ochonogor to the likes of Chief Fidelis Okenmor Tilije, Vincent Uduaghan, Monday Emu et al, you won't agree less that Okowa is ready to re-write the history of Delta State in the positives. As a group, we see in our governor a man who abhors stealing and looting. He's very serious. At a glanc‎e, we saw and identified those who plundered our commonwealth in the time past and today they have replaced with visionary leadership ready to transform a people whose psyche had been battered by plunderes who we owe our stones another day.

Your ston‎es?
Deltans owe the looters and plunderers of their ‎economy stones. We shall pelt them with our stones another day.

With the huge indebtedness of N636bn according to the governor, how do you think he would achieve his desired objectives for the state?

The major element here is his zeal, the will, the passion, love...to end decades of poverty and underdevelopment in the oil-rich Delta State. He has a team capable of breathing life into a dead economy any day. Okowa parades economic wizards who are respected in their various fields of endeavour, given free hands to operate, these world renowned professionals would join their expertise with the governor to catapult the state above its peers in a short time. The Internally Generated Revenue, IGR of the state is another area the governor would deploy his wisdom. The IGR base of the state has the propensity to grow if well managed and I suggest the governor appoints an insider who knows the rudiment of the agency to manage it to a greater height instead of politicians whose major object is to plunder that agency of government. The leakages should also be blocked. It's only an insider that can put all these in place.

Ofcourse, you know as well as I do, that th‎e governor has began the process of removing idle youths from the streets of Delta State. He has come up with the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship Programme, YAGEP and Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme, STEP. These are two life changing innovations capable of making the state of Delta a model in West Africa. The initial target of the administration is 6000. Just imagine removing 6000 idle young men and women from the streets of the state in favourable engagements and possibly another six thousand in quick succession, who say the this governor won't end well?
The governor would end well because he has started well and that's the trait of successful men all over the world. In a departure from the past, Deltans are in love with Okowa as his popularity sours by the moment.

As a group, what are your expectations from Okowa's government‎?

At the fullness of time, Deltans want to see and live in a prosperous state where the youths are meaningfully engaged rather than building more liabilities who run after self acclaimed political leaders who turn them to mere thugs and miscreants while their children live in affluence in secured environments all over the world.
‎In Okowa we have found that man whom Deltans had craved for over the years. Deltans hailed him when he told his newly appointed commissioners not to place any paid advert for him on.his birthday. He is seriously yearning for greater state and people.

Don't you see his opponents at the polls spill surprises at the tribunals and what would be the position of the DDA then?

What surprise? For us in‎ DDA we do not envisage any surprise at the tribunal because there's nothing surprising about the frivolities of the so called opponents of the good people of Delta State. To fight Okowa is to fight the people and destiny of Deltans. The people shall resist any attempt at impeding the fortunes nocking at the doors of Deltans as Okowa leads us into prosperity. Cannan land is the destination of our people f‎rom Egypt where we had suffered over the years.
However, DDA shall float with the Okowa led-administration and God forbid it sinks, we shall remain unwavering in the philosophy of Okowability and will always stand tall to be counted among the agents of change and accelerated development.

If those you described as Okowa's opponents have the good of Deltans at heart, we call on them to join th‎e moving train of prosperity for all Deltans for the betterment of our dear state. Their contributions are needed for a stronger and better state. Engaging in unending litigation is a huge frivolity which does no one any good. We hope to see them in brotherly embrace with our amiable governor soon.

Who are the people behind the DDA?

Stronger than the structure of any political party, DDA has men and women of impeccable character behind it which is why like the tree planted on the river side, flourishly blossom without season. They are big names I won't want to mention here but we have a tested and trusted Grand Patron in Governor Ifeayin Okowa‎ while others are musketeers whose strength and support for DDA can't be measured

I want you to prove Radio Biafra wrong by
answering these questions.

(1) Do you have light in your village ?

(2) Do you have running water in your village ?

(3) Do you have good road to your village ?

(4) Do you have good Hospital and why
politicians never go there for treatment ?

(5) Do you have standard University and why
your Politicians send their kids abroad ?

(6) Do you have a Job or Is there any Job
opportunity in your place ?

(7) Is there any security ?

( Even some people that are working, are their
salaries paid and how much is their salary ?

(9) Who can tell me what he or she has gained
as a Nigerian since you were born ?

(10) Can we be sincere to each other, Do we
love our selves? I mean Hausas, Biafrans and
Yorubas? and tell me our relationship in nature.

(11) Can someone tell me the most tribe that
has been killed and who killed them? And also
tell me the most hated tribe and who hate them
and why ?

(12) Can someone tell me if we Biafrans had
killed anyone from Hausas or Yorubas before ?
and have we been killed by them before and
why ?

(13) Which people provided the most number
of Presidents in Nigeria since 1960 ?

(14) Which tribe are the killers in Nigeria ?

(15) Which tribe are the poorest in Nigeria ?

(16) Which people have the key positions in
Nigeria

(17) Which people are desperate to take power
in Nigeria ?

(18) Which people have the most oil block in
Nigeria ?

(19) Which people have the most compound
fools and illiterates in Nigeria ?

(20) Can you give your life to defend Nigeria as
your country ?

GOD BLESS BIAFRANS..You claim you have the
highest population yet you are afraid to have
your own country.You claim the Igbos are the
problem of Nigeria and you hate them with
passion yet you don't want to let them go.You
claim the Igbos have dominated your land yet
you are still willing to sale your lands and
properties to them.You claim you are born to
rule yet you still want us to believe in one
Nigeria.You claim we are one yet our
religion,tradition and other ways of life are far
different.You claim we are brothers yet Igbos
are the first to be targeted whenever there is
uprising.You claim agitation for Biafra is illegal
yet you don't want to address the injustice
against the Igbos. You claim the Igbos are not
united yet you are killing and bombing
yourselves.You said no victor no vanquished
yet you still make the Igbos to feel the pain of
the civil war.You claim Igbos refused to vote
for APC yet you want democracy to survive in
Nigeria.Igbos have largely contributed to the
development of this nation yet they are not
appreciated.These have made the actualization
of sovereign state of Biafra inevitable and no
hand is large enough to cover the rising sun
because we are the children of the most high.In
Biafra we hope in Biafra we believe.

Amen. That's my Governor