HOW URHOBO POLITICIANS UNDERDEVELOPED URHOBO (1999-Present) By By Zik Gbemre Politicians of Urhobo Extraction have been underdeveloping Urhobo since 1999 There is the need for a paradigm shift to replace these power-usurping, non-performing political actors with a new breed of patriotic Urhobo leaders.*_ Urhobo land has suffered consistent neglect and underdevelopment since 1999. That year was the beginning of the 4th Republic after almost two decades of military rule, with the only hiatus being the short-lived Babangida transition programme of 1992-93. Urhobo underdevelopment is in all facets: infrastructural, economic, education, health, culture, etc. Urhoboland is now synonymous with poverty, joblessness, insecurity of all forms, infrastructural decay, unemployment, despondency, depravity etc. Indeed Urhobo land, it can be said, is the poverty capital of Delta State, with most of the Urhobo youths consigned to tricycling/ motorcycling (okada) riding. But things have not ...