-Blank NEWS Online (NIGERIA) – By Albert OGRAKA:
The Director General, HOPE ALIVE Worldwide, Engr. Chief Lawrence Eduje,
has, on behalf of the Founder and Grand Patron of HOPE ALIVE Worldwide, Bashorun Askia Ogieh FCNA, CrFA, warmly felicitated with Her Excellency, wife of the Delta State governor and founder “05 Initiative” Dame Edith Okowa, on her 59th birthday Anniversary which held on Monday June 1, 2020.
HOPE ALIVE Worldwide is a forefront independent political pressure group, which mobilized massive support for the election of Governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa in 2015 and his re-election in 2019 as well as other elections of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Isoko South and Isoko North local government areas respectively.
A statement made available to Blank NEWS Online,.eulogized the governor’s wife for her humane and philanthropic work for humanity, especially the transformation and upliftment of lives of the less privileged across the state.
The independent political pressure group, expressed appreciation to Dame Okowa for using her pet project, “05 Initiative”, to provide basic health facilities and infrastructure across the state through individual and corporate partnerships.
The statement titled ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY DELTA STATE FIRST LADY DAME EDITH OKOWA” and signed by the DG, HOPE ALIVE Worldwide reads: “On behalf of our indefatigable Founder/Grand Patron Bashorun Askia Ogieh, Patrons, Advisory Council, National Working Committee, National Executive Committee and the entire Members Worldwide, I celebrate you today and wish you the very best that life can offer.
“We appreciate your partnership over the years and hope and pray to continue to work with you and His Excellency the Governor in building a Stronger Deltan.
“Happy birthday our Mummy. “