Human
rights lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has vowed that he was ready to go to prison
or be detained in the course of fighting to liberate Deltans from the
stranglehold of a small political clique appropriating the resources of the
state to themselves.
Keyamo said this in Ughelli, Delta State at the weekend,
when he addressed hundreds of people from various walks of life across the
different local government areas who joined members of the Delta Forces United
(DFU) Ughelli North chapter to show solidarity and express their support for
him in his governorship ambition.
Among those who endorsed his candidature was an
anti-corruption campaigner and former member of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Dino Melaye, who tweeted to his numerous
friends and well wishers the state, urging them to support their own saying
“the time for change has come and it is now.”
The governorship aspirant also used the occasion of the town
hall meeting held at Ekiagbon hall, Ughelli, to declare that he has the
structures to fight the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
The assertion came in what could be described as an apparent
response to statements allegedly credited to some PDP leaders in the state who
were of the opinion that he lacked the structure to pursue his 2015
gubernatorial ambition.
Keyamo, who reminded members of the PDP in the state that he
made his name outside Asaba, the state capital, declared that there was nothing
the opposition had that he had not got.
In his words: “We have no link with the treasury in Asaba. We
made our name outside Asaba. There is nothing they have that we do not have. I
have the structures to fight for the opposition in Delta State. We will not
allow them rig our votes again.”
He assured members of DFU that should anyone of them be arrested
from Delta State to Abuja or Alagbon Close in Lagos in the course of the
struggle, lawyers were already positioned in his Lagos and Abuja offices
to defend them without taking anything for legal services.
The Uvwie-born legal practitioner cum politician who grew up in
Ughelli advised members of DFU as well as Deltans to rise up and challenge that
small “clique” that has been ruling the state since 1999.
He declared that there was slow development in Ughelli, even as he posited that Delta State was developmentally backward compared to states like Akwa-Ibom, Lagos and Edo.
The governorship hopeful who branded the youth empowerment
programme by various administrations as a “complete fraud,” said “what youths
in the state need are permanent jobs as well as an enabling environment for
businesses to thrive.”
He promised that if given the gubernatorial mandate in 2015, his
administration will tackle unemployment through agriculture, just as he vowed
that he will address corruption in governance by “publishing every contract
awarded, to whom it was awarded and when such contracts will be completed and
commissioned”.
According to Keyamo, he has not come into politics as an Urhobo
candidate and neither was he out to run a sectional agenda but
principally to create an environment that gives hope to all Deltans
irrespective of ethnic groups.
Source: Thisday
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