Delta 2015: Anioma plans Uduaghan's successor

The dogged struggle for the successor of the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday assumed a new twist as the former acting Governor of the state and one time Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Prince Sam Obi, has endorsed the intrigues for equity and justice being canvassed by the Anioma ethnic nationality. 

The former Speaker is said to be warming up to succeed the Governor, having acted in the capacity for 90 days when the Court of Appeal in Benin, Edo State, ousted Governor Uduaghan on November 10, 2010, out of office in election petition filed by Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP).

Besides Obi, the incumbent Speaker of the state's House of Assembly, Victor Ochei, an Engineer, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, representing Delta North Senatorial district, Prof. Sylvester Monye, Presidential Adviser on Project Monitoring and Evaluation and Senator Pius Ewheirdo, representing Delta Central Senatorial district on the platform of the DPP) are girding their loins. 

At a consultation drive led by  the  former acting Governor by the Anioma Agenda (AA), a socio-cultural and political group, led by its Chairman, Barr. Alex Onwuadiamu, flanked by 12 others in his official quarters, in Asaba yesterday, Obi did not only indicate interest in the race but also enjoined all Anioma sons and daughters, home and abroad, to support the plan being orchestrated by the group.

He said, “I commend the focus and patriotism exhibited by the leadership of the group, I urged them to remain dogged in the struggle for equity and justice which enjoy the backing of the Nigerian constitution.”

Saying the group’s agenda “will make Delta State stronger and more united”, Onwuadiamu said the group had put machineries in place for the actualization of the objective.

“I admonish aspirants from the district (Delta North) not to rock the boat and to realise that power comes only from God. I appreciate our brothers from Delta Central and South for their understanding that Delta State belongs to us all,” he added.

Source: Compass