2015: S/South PDP, APC Govs‘ll meet on the battle field— Uduaghan By Emma Amaize, Austin Ogwuda, Festus Ahon, Egufe Yafugborhi, Godwin Oghre, Brisibe Perez GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has declared that it will be love lost between Governors of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and their All Progressives Congress,APC, counterparts in the Niger Delta, saying they would meet on the field in 2015. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Asaba on burning national and state issues, the Governor said in 2015, all the South South Governors will campaign for their various presidential candidates. He said, “Governor Amaechi, my friend is in APC, I am in PDP. In 2015, PDP will present its Presidential candidate and APC will do same. Based on that, we will all campaign and vote for our Presidential candidates and that is where our relationship ends. “But I can tell you that the PDP is getting stronger. You know we now have the “Game Changer” as national chairman. We have taken Ekiti and more States will follow. At the state level there is no shaking. Our members who left are coming back. We shall meet on the field.” On the forthcoming October council polls in the state, he said his party leaders will try to reduce the tension in the campaigns by streamlining the number of aspirants. “The primaries will be held in August. I have not endorsed anybody, but I am worried where you have 13 aspirants vying for chairmanship and only one can emerge. We should not heat up the system. We don’t want a repeat of the situation where people will start moving to other parties,” he stated. Uduaghan further advised striking health workers to resume work, adding that frequency under the current situation in the country is unhealthy and uncalled for. He said, “I have maintained that doctors should please go back to work while we are dealing with the issues they have raised, because this period is too critical for the health sector to be shutdown. “Assuming another bomb blast occurs, what happens to the patients, would they allow them just to die because doctors are on strike? Anything short of the doctors going back to their duty posts, that means we are softly supporting the terrorists, because denying them access to health care means that is what we are doing,” he added.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:54:40 +0000
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