2015: PDP Delta chairman, Nwaoboshi tackles UPU on Uduaghan’s successor. By Austin Ogwuda Asaba—DELTA State Chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday cautioned the political class about making inflammatory statements especially the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, who claimed that they hold the ace in deciding the fate of the next governor of the state because of their population advantage. Reacting to a statement credited to the national publicity secretary of UPU, Chief Mike Okenini , Nwaoboshi said that such inflammatory statements were capable of over heating the polity and cautioned that no tribe or ethnic group should hold the state to ransom in the quest to produce the next governor. UPU spokesman, Okenini had in the statement said “Urhobos are highly republican and would resist any form of imposition in the build-up to 2015. Those taking the inglorious step of trying to thwart our collective efforts to reclaim the governorship position cannot deliver for their masters on the day of election”. He was also quoted as saying that there was nothing like zoning arrangement within Delta PDP. According to Nwaoboshi, “I want to say unequivocally that UPU has no business with the affairs of PDP in Delta State. UPU is a cultural organisation and can only speak for the Urhobo nation as far as the Urhobo is concerned. No tribe can hold PDP to ransom in Delta State. In 1999, the Urhobos did not vote for Ibori and in his re-election they did not vote for Ibori. Ibori did not get the type of support he wanted from them. In 2007, Urhobos did not vote for Uduaghan, Uduaghan emerged, In the re-run election Urhobos did not vote for Emmanuel Uduaghan, Uduaghan emerged. “In the last election”, he went on, “they (Urhobos) did not vote for Uduaghan , three elections so they have no right of claim under PDP. They have always been opposed to PDP; it is only the last senatorial election that they voted for PDP. So they have no right to talk about zoning they have been in because they have never voted for governorship in Delta state so for any to sit down and talk about PDP and zoning because is UPU, we will not take it from them”, he added. On Page 12 of Vanguard 4 september 2014
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:07:37 +0000
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