A servant-leader,
a state on the rise.
His Excellency Rt. Hon. (Elder) Sheriff Francis Orohwedor Oborevwori — the 6th elected Governor of Delta State — leads with a quiet, steady hand and a deeply human vision. Under the M.O.R.E Agenda, Delta is being rebuilt from the ground up: roads that reach the last village, power that stays on after sunset, and dignity restored to every corner of the state.
Delta State — heartland of the Niger Delta
Carved out of the old Bendel State on 27 August 1991, Delta State is home to the Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko, Itsekiri, Anioma (Igbo) and Ika peoples — a mosaic of cultures bound by the great river that gives the state its name.
The M.O.R.E Agenda
Four letters, one covenant with 5.6 million Deltans. M.O.R.E is not a slogan — it is the operating system of a government that believes progress is measured in kilowatt-hours, kilometres of paved road, classrooms built, and lives lifted.
"We will govern with the fear of God and unwavering focus on the welfare of Deltans. My administration will consolidate the gains of the past and build a stronger, more prosperous Delta State."
From Osubi to the Government House
Born on 19 June 1963 in Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area — the same soil that today hosts the pilot Osubi Independent Solar Power Pilot project — Sheriff Oborevwori's story is inseparable from the land he now serves.
A grassroots politician of remarkable patience, he rose through the Delta State House of Assembly across four terms, culminating in an unprecedented tenure as Speaker (2017 – 2023) where he presided over one of the most stable and productive legislatures in the Federation. Colleagues remember a chairman who listened first and legislated second — a trait he has carried into the Governor's office.
Sworn in as the 6th elected Governor of Delta State on 29 May 2023, he has since anchored his tenure on humility, delivery, and an insistence that government be felt in the household — not merely announced on the news.
The Osubi Solar pilot — the crowning infrastructure of a first term.
Roads, bridges, secretariats, hospitals, the Warri-Effurun stormwater masterplan, the reconstructed Trans-Warri corridor, the rural electrification pushes into Ndokwa and Burutu — each project has been a stitch in the fabric. The Osubi Independent Solar Power Pilot — 1 MWp of PV with 2.05 MWh of battery storage — is the golden thread that binds them. It is proof that Delta State can generate, store and dispatch its own clean power — right next to the Governor's ancestral home.
A second term built on sunlight, steel and citizens
With the foundation laid, the 2027 mandate will accelerate the power transition — in deep partnership with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), the Federal Government, the Delta State cabinet and private-sector stakeholders under the Electricity Act 2023.
To the quiet builder of a brighter Delta
History rarely announces its heroes in real time. It waits. It watches. And then, one generation later, it turns the page and finds their fingerprints on every road, every school, every light that stayed on through the night.
Rt. Hon. (Elder) Sheriff Oborevwori will be remembered as the Governor who refused to choose between concrete and kilowatts — who understood that a hospital without power is only a building, that a school without light is only a room, and that a state without energy sovereignty is only a map.
From the humble grounds of Osubi, where he took his first steps, to the same soil now humming with 15 megawatts of homegrown sunshine, his tenure has traced a single luminous arc: Delta powering itself, by itself, for itself.
May the light he switched on for Deltans never dim. May the M.O.R.E Agenda outlive its author. And may every child born in Delta State from this day forward inherit a land where the sun does not just rise — it works.