Newly sworn-in Delta State Ag. Governor, Hon. Sam Obi is presently facing the toughest loyalty battle of his life, feelers reaching Fresh Angle suggests.
While reports claim that the State Ag. Governor and former Speaker, Hon. Sam Obi retained all commissioners, aides, board members as well as heads of government parastatals and agencies appointed by ex Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Fresh Angle gathered from an impeccable source that Ijaw National Leader and arrow head of aggrieved PDP members in the state, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark is making far reaching consultations to woo the Acting Governor whose brief reign as Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly was short-lived by the Appeal Court ruling in Benin sacking Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan.
As anxiety continues to grow among Deltans over how President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will handle this seeming battle of supremacy between two men pledging loyalty to his leadership and 2011 Presidential bid, staunch loyalists of ousted Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan are currently strategizing to confront the obvious challenge. Fresh Angle can report that the recent Pro Ibori and Uduaghan rallies held in Warri are the beginning of several strategies by the Pro Uduaghan believers to stake their perceived superiority. Indications of what to expect emerged few days after the Appeal Court judgement when a federal lawmaker in the state (name withheld) sent bulk text message to ardent supporters of ex Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. The message reads thus, “My political leaders and associates, fraternal greetings, re-appeal court decision of Tuesday, I call on u all to see it as a call to action. We shld be happy that the ruling s devoid of ambiguities, but clear ad definitive ad thus do not need further judicial interpretations. Thus, we hv to organize to confront dis immediate challenge ad not agonize. Consultations is n top gear for us to meet soonest ad synergize our actions. Pl draw up what u consider as required necessary actions ad strategies dat should be taken by our collectivity as our action, plan for d re-run ad we discuss such whn we meet. H.E.EE UDUAGHAN will certainly return! I salute u”.
One thing that is sure as the impending rerun draws nearer in Delta State is that indigenes and residents of the state should be poised for the biggest political challenge as supporters of the DPP candidate, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru who seemed to have gone under before the Appeal Court judgement in Benin City are equally regrouping and making strong statements regarding the rerun.
Meanwhile, the Tuesday November 9, 2010 judgement by the Appeal Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state which sacked Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan as third civilian Governor of Delta State took the political landscape of Delta State by storm, Fresh Angle can authoritatively report.
Fresh Angle reliably gathered that Chieftains of the Ibori/Uduaghan Political family as well as majority of aspirants outside its frame took time to come to reality with the Appeal Court judgement which came in an unconventional time of 7pm after sitting commenced 3pm for reasons not immediately clear as at press time.
While reactions from most parts of Delta State, particularly in Warri, Effurun, Otu-Jeremi, the country home of ousted Deputy Governor, Professor Amos Agbe Utuama indicated a feeling of happiness, Fresh Angle gathered from impeccable sources that key members of the Uduaghan cabinet as well as staunch loyalists of the embattled former Governor never saw it coming, due to their perceived firm grip of the state. Though the Appeal Court judgement is sequel to a suit filed by the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, candidate, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, feelers reaching Fresh Angle reveals that the Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark’s led faction of the PDP orchestrated the seeming political coup after efforts to ensure that INEC dissolve the Barr. Peter Nwaoboshi led state executive of the party is being confronted with legal fireworks.
Impeccable sources confirmed to Fresh Angle that part of the grand design is to make sure operatives of the EFCC and ICPC press corruption charges against Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan so as to automatically disqualify him from contesting and pave way for a dark horse aspirant within Delta South Senatorial district to fly the PDP flag.
The Delta South PDP Chairman, Hon. Kenneth Efejuku in a telephone chat with Fresh Angle a day after the Appeal Court Judgement, declared that the party has accepted the ruling in good fate. “We have accepted it in good fate, we are putting our house in order, waiting for INEC to give us a new date. No shaking”, he enthused.
A Chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and popular Itsekiri activist, Mr. Amaechi Ogbonna in a telephone chat responded thus, “it is victory for democracy. The judiciary has taken a bold step, the attitude of INEC in Delta State has been exposed”. He revealed, “the main aim is to destroy the Ibori dynasty which used Utuama’s chamber to siphon Delta money. It is now we will know if EFCC is working, because Uduaghan has a police case”.
The National Co-ordinator of Southern Mandate, Mr. Alex Oyoro in his reaction, opined that the Rule of law has taken place, describing the judgement as a victory for all Deltans. According to him, if Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan had done a good job people would have sympathized with him. “There was oil windfall, yet he couldn’t do anything even in his own place”, Oyoro posited.
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