Delta State governor, Dr
Emmanuel Uduaghan, has charged all gubernatorial aspirants in the state to sell their programmes and policies to the people, rather than scheming on how to disqualify fellow aspirants.
Governor Uduaghan, who has been evasive on his likely successor noted that neither he nor any level of scheming could determine the candidate that would take over from him in 2015, adding that the final choice is in the hands of God.
Dr Uduaghan spoke at an Inter-denominational Thanksgiving Service held at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter’s (Anglican Communion), Asaba to mark the 23rd anniversary of the creation of Delta State yesterday.
He cautioned the aspirants to stop running around, trying to disqualify their opponents because it is whoever God wants to give power that He will give, adding, “even if you disqualify somebody at the screening stage and God wants that person, the person will succeed.”
The governor recalled that in the build-up to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries in 2006, he was disqualified by a screening committee in Port Harcourt before an appeal panel cleared him to contest the polls.
“As an aspirant who wants to take over from me, tell the people what you want to do; let us have a clean electioneering campaign. It is who God wants that He will put in office,” Dr Uduaghan said.
Meanwhile the people of Oko-Amakom community in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State have protested against the failure of the federal government to pay adequate compensation to residents of the community who were affected by the construction of the Second Niger Bridge.
Motorists plying Asaba-Onitsha Expressway had a hectic time as placard-carrying residents of the community demonstrated along the busy road.
The chairman of the community, Chief Jideofor Anosike, accused a consultant to the federal government, Mr Mark Ugorji of using the police to force the poor villagers out of Asaba to collect meager monetary compensation.