First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who calls Mr. Innocent Chukwuma ‘my son’ is obviously not the only proud Nigerian excited about the entrepreneurial skills of the 53 year old Nnewi born billionaire. Just about any Nigerian that would tour any of Chukwuma’s factories in Nnewi, Anambra State or Enugu, Enugu State would show a kindred spirit to a man who has used sheer ingenuity, robust energy and what some associates say unusual honesty, in positioning Nigeria at the threshold of an industrial revolution. Chukwuma in 2011 put Nigeria in the league of vehicle producing countries after his Nnewi factory rolled out the first truly made in Nigeria vehicles.

“A reputation for good judgement, for fair dealing, for truth and for rectitude is, itself fortune” – HARRY WARD BEECHER, quoted by Archbishop JV Obinna in honour of ex-Governor Peter Obi and befitting for Chief Innocent Chukwuma

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.