By Emma Arubi
WARRI—GRAND Patron of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Prince Collins Eselemo, yesterday, took a hard stand against the gubernatorial aspirant of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State for the re-run election, Chief Great Ogboru, describing his claims against former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan as deceitful and very insincere.

Chief  Ogboru had on Monday, said that the Uduaghan administration wasted a whopping N800bn on nothing tangible in the state, citing the Asaba International airport project and the Independent Power Plant, IPP, project at Oghara as nothing but a ruse and conduit pipe for siphoning of state funds.

However, the Niger Delta activist  said Ogboru’s claim that it was the turn of the Delta North senatorial district to rule the after him amounts to playing to the gallery, just as he insisted that the Central senatorial district from which Ogboru belong has been ruling the state since the time of Chief Felix Ibru to Ibori.

According to him, the South senatorial district must be given its rightful due by being allowed to complete their two terms in office with Uduaghan as Governor.

He charged Chief Ogboru to provide concrete evidence of wastage of state fund by Uduaghan, stressing that nobody in his right senses would call the asaba airport project and the Oghara IPP project a failed project. He noted that the Asaba International airport is set to boost industrialization that would benefit all Nigerians even as he called for the expansion of the Osubi airstrip to serve the interest of Warri and Ughelli axis of the state.

While stating that ogboru’s claims is inequitable at the political level and that needs to be addressed concretely, he advised the DPP gubernatorial candidate to channel his energy and wisdom towards ensuring a successful voters registration exercise where the peoples vote would count.

Eselemo expressed regrets that while the PDP and former Governor Uduaghan and his team are gearing up preparation towards securing the peoples vote in the coming re_run election with their massive structure on ground, Chief Ogboru’ party and his cohorts are busy trooping to the Abuja and the home of some discredited elders to seek a short cut to power, playing the ethnic game and fanning the embers of discord and disunity amongst the people