By: Tonebsky Nesta
The intrigues that prevented Chief Edwin Clark from stopping Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in the just concluded Delta State gubernatorial election went beyond the political face, Fresh Angle investigations reveal.
Fresh Angle can report that while the Ijaw National leader and one time Federal Minister made several moves, including petitions to both INEC and EFCC against Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan’s return ambition over allegations of corruption, the re-elected Governor had the ears of President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife as well as that of prominent and influential gospel Ministers in Delta State.
Fresh Angle gathered that the warm reception accorded wife of the President, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan during her visit to Delta State last year to launch the Women for Change Initiative, the President’s election bid, legal brick wall against substitution of Dr. Uduaghan as PDP Candidate coupled with the influence of Christian clerics appears to have weaken Chief Clark’s influence on President Goodluck Jonathan. The division in Chief Clark’s group which saw Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege and other key political figures moving to the RPN further weakened the strength of the South-South leader whose resistance against Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has remained an open sore. Fresh Angle can authoritatively report that loyalists who remained with the Ijaw National leader despite the odds were not certain the candidate to support a week to the just concluded Delta guber rerun until last minute reports in some National dailies crediting the vocal PDP leader’s support for Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru. Investigations however reveal that in spite of the expected absence of Chief Edwin Clark at the Warri City Stadium when President Goodluck Jonathan came to drum up support for Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the prominent Ijaw leader is still leading his political army to actualize the April 2011 Presidential bid of the incumbent President.
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