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After 8 years, Delta PDP admits ex-Gov Uduaghan was a bad leader

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The Delta State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan as a featherweight in the politics of the state.

The party stated that Uduaghan, who ruled the state from 2008 to 2015 under its platform was a bad leader who “estranged many PDP members with his bad leadership style”.

The PDP was responding to a statement credited to Uduaghan, who recently defected from the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that his new party will dislodge PDP in the state in the 2019 general elections.

PDP, which described the statement as a pipedream, said Uduaghan seemed to have forgotten how Governor Ifeanyi Okowa defeated him at the governorship primary when he sponsored another candidate against him, using all state apparatus.

The party stated this in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ifeanyi Michael Osuoza on Monday, adding that Uduaghan’s boast was completely laughable.

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The statement reads: “As Governor, Dr Okowa has endeared himself to majority of Deltans with his stellar achievements in all sectors of the economy. They cannot wait to re-elect him come 2019.

“When it comes to politics and elections in Delta State, Dr. Uduaghan should realise that he is less than a featherweight. Does he even know how he became Governor in the first place? In 2019, we shall ensure that he is exiled into political oblivion once and for all.

“Governor Uduaghan was actually referring to himself when he made that statement. This was exactly what he did when he was leader of the party as governor. Out of sheer arrogance and vaulting ambition, he estranged many PDP members with his bad leadership style and worked hard to frustrate and impoverish many of them.

“It was part of his treacherous plan to undermine and usurp the position of our political leader, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, and create his own political empire. Dr. Uduaghan left behind a party that was fractured and near disintegration. But thank God that under Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP in Delta State has regained its status as a united, cohesive and formidable force.”

The party further said that Uduaghan’s claim that “I don’t expect Ibori to think I betrayed him,” is the statement of a traitor facing the torment of his own soul”, berating him for biting the fingers that fed him and that he is a man in a crisis of conscience.

By Timothy Enietan-Matthews…

 

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