DELTA GUBER: THE RACE HOTS UP.

DELTA GUBER: THE RACE HOTS UP.

Going by the zoning arrangement in the Peoples Democratic Party{PDP} in
Delta State,the People of Delta North Senatorial District believe it
is their turn to be governor of the state come 2015 owing to fact that the Delta
Central Senatorial District and Delta South Senatorial Districts have
served their turns in the persons of Chief James Onanefe Ibori and
Dr.Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan.

Although,electioneering campaigns will kick off in November 2014,according
to the time-table released by the INEC recently,party chieftains within
and outside the PDP are already heating up the polity with media
propangada. The most recent one is between the Secretary to the
State Government,Comrade Ovuzuorie Macauley and the State party
Chairman,Chief Peter Nwaoboshi. Nwaoboshi like every other man from Delta North Senatorial
District believes it is their turn to be governor due to the zoning
arrangement while Comrade Ovuzuorie Macauley in a media chat "opined
that there was nothing like zoning in the party and that if at all there
is,he not aware of it".

With the opinion of Comrade Macauley one is tempted to say that the
SSG is tactically playing the card of Dr. Uduaghan who does not want to
disappoint the Presidency with the People of Delta North Senatorial
District just to protect his senatorial ambition for Delta South even
though it was clear that he  have to contend with Senator James Manager
who is not ready to  step down and his Commissioner for Health,Dr.Joseph
Otumara who, it is speculated is also eyeing the position before facing
the opposition party. Dr. Uduaghan is said to be tactically waiting for the
Presidency to anoint its PDP governorship candidate before
giving his consent and making known who succeeds him. This is just the
example of bye-election in Delta Central that brought out Senator Emmanuel
Aguariavwodo to the National Assembly.If at the end of the
day,the Presidency anoints anybody irrespective of tribe,Dr.Uduaghan
will work for such a person to be governor. But left for him,our investigations reveal, he would like to give power back to an Urhobo man
because the Itsekiri man knows he  is always safe with the Urhobo and
for this reason, he has been playing hide and seek game with the
Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly,Rt.Hon.Victor
Ochie,Dr.Ifeanyi Okowa,Mr.Peter Nwaoboshi,Ngozi Olejeme and a host of
others who are speculated to be gunning for Delta State Government
House come 2015.
A cross section of Deltans we spoke with said the "SSG ought not  to
have  interfered in the governorship  matter between Dr.Uduaghan and
the people of Delta North when the Commissioner for
Information,Mr.Chike Ogeah who is from Delta North is there.This they opine is to avoid
 causing enmity for himself particularly within the Aniomas
and the Isokos" even though he is playing the card of his boss.

The big question now is whether  the Urhobos are sure of getting back the
governorship position even if anyone of their son/daughter contest the
2015 election?

While Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi has spread hiss posters in major parts of
Warri and its environs,a cross section of Deltans particularly of the
Urhobo extraction "believe that he is just political business man
seeking for an appointment after elections".
With the posters of Speaker,Victor Ochei and others from Delta North
Senatorial Districts is obvious they are battle ready for the
governorship position. The question now on all lips is if the Urhobos have a viable candidate who can match them?