IT’S difficult to comprehend what the ‘’village boy”, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, who grew up tapping rubber and fishing at Mosogar community, Ethiope-West Local Government Area of Delta State, is doing in the past six years and 10 months at Government House, Asaba, without seeing things yourself. ‘Seeing is believing,’ says an adage.

The Delta State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr. Richard Mofe-Damijo was until his adventure into government, one of Africa’s leading movie stars. The celebrated actor who first burst into national consciousness in the soap opera, Ripples, won the award for Best Actor in a leading role in the maiden edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2005.

THERE are four things about the 59-year-old Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan that have baffled his political associates and foes since he became Governor of Delta State in 2007. The first is the supernatural talisman that follows him like a shadow, his native intelligence, calmness in the face of trouble and bold spirit.

When the Board of Editors of Vanguard Newspapers got together in December 2013 to elect the paper’s Man-of-the-Year, it was unanimously resolved that recognition must be given to Nigerians who have recorded uncommon feats in their respective areas of endeavour.

Her Excellency, Deaconess Roli Uduaghan, the First Lady of Delta State, is well positioned to tell the Emmanuel Uduaghan story having been married to the governor for 24 years. Last Sunday, she sat down to tell the story. Her narration laced with never-before-told tales of the inner life of the Delta State first family also reveals Roli’s role as a supportive spouse and spiritual shield.