Promise Made Promise Fulfilled

In fulfilment of his election campaign promise, Senator Pius Ewherido representing Delta Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly instituted an Urhobo language competition among the youths in his senatorialdistrict, as a means of reviving mother language among youths. The key attraction in the competition open to youths between 10 and 25 years old is a brand new car.

The competition, Senator Ewherido said, was in fulfilment of his election campaign promise to promote the use of our mother language among youths, who he claimed had lost the ability to communicate in the language. 

Pledging his determination to revive fluent communication in local languages during a session with newsmen in his office, Senator Ewherido, lamented that our mother languages could be extinct given the progressing failure of many youths to speak or write in our languages.

The competition was held in the eight local government areas of Delta Central senatorial district with competitors being quizzed on topics ranging from “traditional idioms of Urhobo language to test their understanding of the language, Urhobo cultural attributes, innuendos, storytelling, translations from English to essay writing and debates among other considerations.”