Governor Uduaghan’s purported endorsement of members of DTHA in 2011  Can’t confirm – Guanah  Those are false information – Okudolor  I’m not awar

By: Tonebsky Nesta

Following intense speculations making the rounds in Delta State that Governor Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan has purportedly endorsed all members of the State House of Assembly to return in the 2011 poll, your soar away community tabloid sought the views of some aspirants seeking to represent their constituency in the much anticipated polls and they bare their minds this way.

The immediate past Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Barr. Raymos Bolowei Guanah who is seeking to unseat the current Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly in Patani Constituency, Hon. Basil Ganagana in a short message sent to his mobile phone simply responded, “can’t confirm”. The former Special Adviser to ex Governor James Ibori once told Fresh Angle in an exclusive interview that it’s the people of his constituency that will decide who represents them in 2011.

Member of Delta Water ways Security Committee and aspirant to Warri South Constituency II Seat, Chief Vincent Okudolor in an exclusive chat summed his feelings thus, “there’s no information like that, those are false information. The Governor has nobody of his choice, he said he won’t impose any aspirant on another. He has been preaching one man one vote and I know he’ll stand by his words, we are waiting for the primaries and the campaign train is on”.

When asked on telephone if he attended any meeting where the Governor purportedly asked all aspirants in the 3 Warris to step down for incumbents, renowned technocrat and grassroots politician, Mr. Matthew Poko Opuoru who is aspiring to slug it out with Hon. Dennis Omovie for Warri South Constituency II Seat, stated that he’s not aware of any such meeting. He said nobody has told him to drop his ambition, stressing that he’s going ahead with his campaign in preparation for the primaries on the platform of the ruling PDP.

Fresh Angle however gathered that some Itsekiri aspirants within the PDP fold vying for both State and Federal Constituency Seats in the 3 Warri local governments were allegedly told at a caucus meeting in Asaba to drop their aspiration for the incumbents.