Speaking when the management of The Sun Newspapers presented a letter of Sports Person of the Year award to Blessing Okagbare (now Mrs. Ighoteguonor) in Asaba on Wednesday, Governor Uduaghan stated that his administration invested in the athlete and other Deltans, observing that such investments were not only a blessing to Delta State and Nigeria but to Africans
Browsing: Emmaneul Uduaghan
Okowa beat 24 others, including the early frontline aspirant in the race, Sir Tony Obuh, and Chief David Edevbie, who was his closest rival, last week to emerge as the party’s flag-bearer
Governor Uduaghan, receiving members of the Delta Political Vanguard, who paid him a solidarity visit at Government House, Asaba on Monday, also advised them to be magnanimous in victory by accommodating everybody
He said: “Let all faithful members of our great party be reminded that now that a candidate has emerged, it is incumbent on us all to close ranks and work assiduously towards ensuring victory for the PDP in the general elections
To the effect, Uduaghan mobilized the contractors to site to ensure the project is completed before his administration leaves office on May 29, 2015
A statement by Felix Ofou, Uduaghan’s Press Secretary, said the governor in his condolence message told the former Presidential spokesman he shared in his pains over his late mother’s demise
The verbal war that ensued thereafter threw the powers-that-be in the state into confusion, leading to an attempt on the life of the former Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, a multi-billionaire Engineer, who narrowly escaped being lynched during one of his ‘mosquito’ campaigns at Obomkpa in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state