Choose a sellable candidate or lose Delta to opposition, Uduehi tells PDP guber delegates …says those in support of imposition are forgetting the God factor
By Our Correspondent
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, a governorship hopeful and the chairman of the governing board of the National Commission for Mass Literacy Adult and Non Formal Education in the State, Dr. Esther Uduehi has warned that the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) may lose the governorship election to the opposition All Progressives Congress, (APC) if its delegates fail to choose a sellable candidate in the party’s gubernatorial primary slated for November 29, 2014.
Dame Esther Kelicha Uduehi PhD
Uduehi who stated this during a consultation visit to the leadership of the PDP in Isoko South and North Local Government Areas, charged the delegates to think right and not mortgage their votes during the party’s primaries.
According to her “many Deltans are not politicians but they are going to vote in the general elections and they are depending on you PDP delegates to choose a good, credible and sellable candidate so that they can vote for that person because they want to vote for President Jonathan.
“But if you make the mistake of listening to some people saying it is here or there and not go for the right person, if you make the mistake of being guided by money and therefore won’t go for the right person, then you betray the state, you betray yourselves and you will be doing a great disservice to the electorates.
“Because if you choose the wrong candidate, then Deltans will definitely go to the opposition All Progressives Congress, (APC) seeking for a change from imposition and that won’t be in our interest as a party. So I want to appeal to all of you, please do the right thing. Ignore all the rumours making the rounds that somebody has being anointed and all because those saying that are forgetting the God factor as he alone will decide who will be governor.”
Continuing she said “Nkwani and Isoko people are one, we produce oil and gas, we know where it pinches and as a governor of Delta State, if oil is being discussed in Nigeria, I will know what to say but if you choose someone who does not come from where they do that, he will not appreciate or understand the agitations of the people from those areas.”
Chief Obi Eneruvie and Hon. Tutumor Daniel Isoko South and North PDP Chairmen respectively promised to heed her warnings, assuring that the party will not lose the state to APC in 2015.
