APEX Urhobo socio-political organisation, the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), has stated that the Urhobo ethnic nationality would vote against President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition in 2015 if he fails to ensure that the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerges from the Urhobo nation’s Delta Central Senatorial district.
The group also slammed Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, of working to sabotage the Urhobo nations’ ambition to produce the next governor in the state by supporting candidates from the north senatorial district of the Igbo speaking people.
President–General, UPU, Chief Joe Omene, made this position known at a gathering of the organisation held at the Urhobo Cultural Centre, Warri, on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
Addressing newsmen on the position of the UPU on the 2015 polls, Omene declared that the UPU and indeed the entire Urhobo ethnic nationality would have no business with any political party that will not consider them for 2015 governorship ticket.
saying that the UPU Uvwiamuge Declaration is predicated on this position as they gave Jonathan over 800,000 votes during the 2011 polls and yet have nothing to show for it.
He said the UPU position would be replicated in all elections throughout the country including the Presidential election and dismissed argument of zoning as fraudulent and undemocratic.
“Let it be stated here without equivocation that the assertion being made in some quarters that the governorship seat has been zoned to Delta North is not true. Indeed, records abound to show that in all the gubernatorial contests since the creation of Delta State and the current political dispensation which started in 1999, politicians from the three Senatorial districts in the state have always contested the gubernatorial position, in particular, those of them from the North senatorial district,” he said.
On who becomes the next governor of Delta State in 2015, the UPU leader expressed disappointment over the alleged posturing of Uduaghan for openly supporting candidates from the North Senatorial district, saying that it was unacceptable, citing working to thwart the efforts of Urhobo in ascending to the position of the state chairman of the PDP; degrading the treatment of the deputy governor and motivating some Urhobo sons to work against the interest of the Urhobo as evidence of anti-Urhobo position.
The UPU had earlier sanctioned some Urhobo sons suspected of being used by Uduaghan to sabotage the collective interest of the Urhobo interest.
Speaking on the allegations against Uduaghan, a prominent Warri Urhobo indigene and APC stalwart, Mr. Umukoro Eseoghene, said Uduaghan should not be blamed for the disunity in Urhobo politics, noting that “everyone is only struggling to satisfy his selfish interest and eke out a living in an environment of acute poverty. Nobody should whip up primordial sentiment against the Itsekiri people for their self- aggrandisement.
Source: dailyndependent
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