….Gets 5,000 text messages in 3 days

By Emma Amaize

WARRI – GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has gone underground, following an exhaustive lobby on him by some leaders of the state and politicians to appoint their candidates as commissioners.

The governor last week dropped 11 commissioners, but since then, he has not rested, as lobbyists keep troubling him.

At a stage, he stopped taking his phone calls, as his cellphones were inundated with over 5,000 text messages in three days.

A source told Vanguard:  “The governor practically fled Asaba, the state capital, after announcing the sack of the commissioners and took refuge in Warri, but when the calls kept coming, he left Warri again at the weekend.”

At the last check yesterday, our dependable source said the governor was in Abuja and was taking his time to consult and assess  the nominees he has in mind.

Vanguard learnt that a prominent chief in the state had sent a message to the governor that he wanted to see him and according to the source, “it is not unconnected with the appointment of some people loyal to the chief in the State Executive Council”.