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CON: Well Deserved for Uduaghan – By Charles Ikedikwa Soeze

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Without mincing words, one can boldly and proudly say that the recent national honour, “Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON)” conferred on the Executive Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan by President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR popularly known as “GEJ” was well deserved. As a political and public affairs analyst as well as commentator on national and international issues, there is no doubt in my mind the governor will continue to play a prominent role at higher level in Nigeria’s political life.
However, it is a truism to say that Governor Uduaghan is being recognized throughout the state by Deltans for his distinguished innovation, vision and Deltans should continue to cooperate fully with the governor because this is the time for critical reappraisal and restrategizing to ensure that the 3-point agenda are effectively pursued and achieved. It seems to me that the only way for Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan and his team to achieve this is for Deltans to rededicate themselves to duty and service, above all, loyalty and commitment to the cause of the state for effective exhibition of the slogan as introduced by the government“Deltans we are one”. If we want to criticize, let it be constructive and not destructive criticism.
It is appropriate to say that Governor Uduaghan has anchored on an agenda with strong emphasis on human capital development (HCD). Since education holds the key to the future of the state and indeed, of any society, the state government is taking the sector seriously. This is so because special attention is accorded the sector in infrastructural development and the re-equipping of the entire school system. Incentive packages have also been put in place to encourage the pursuit of higher education especially in science as well as information and communication technology (ICT).
For Deltans both in Nigeria and in the Diaspora, I think it may be necessary to quote Plato in his masterpiece on Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-80) who argued that the just state is ruled by the ones who know the Good, and at the top is the philosopher-king, a man born and quite literary bred to rule. Why can’t we think towards this direction on the current governor of Delta State?
Let the governor and his aides not be tired of offering their best to the people of Delta State by way of refreshing, reinvigorating and repackaging them through educating, informing, interpreting and finally entertaining the people so that we will all remain factual, trusted, and even bigger. It is a matter of professionalism and excellence.
Furthermore, one can say that the governor will not resort to clearly discriminating and baselessly disparaging policies that may indeed be contrary to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and, above all, conscience and national judgment. As a result, he needs the total support of his aides as well as mass audience. To this end therefore, Your Excellency should continue to remain focused and not to put his professional interest in jeopardy with his ability and agility to maintain a manifest neutrality and ensure that his tenure become a landmark and unquestionable.
As part of efforts to genuinely accomplish this, ongoing projects in the state should be closely monitored by the governor, where necessary or possible he should use his trusted and reliable aides to do the monitoring. Contractors handling such projects should be given deadline to accomplish the work. This is so because some roads in the state have been abandoned based on shoddy and slow execution of work. This is seriously affecting the living standard of the people who have businesses there. For example, the refinery road in Ekpan/warri, the Effurun-Sapele road where we have twenty-four (24) hours hold-up as a result of poor roundabout at airport junction that looks like pond which is called“ogodo” or “omi” in the Delta North (Anioma) for  keeping water in village many years ago. You can see in the roundabout that there was no professionalism. The contractor should go back to site immediately. The airport road roundabout is denting and denigrating the image of the state of which the governor is the number one citizen. Devastating erosion menace in Ubulu-uku with the largest population in the present Aniocha south local government and Agbor, administrative headquarters of Ika south local Government among many other towns should be handled by the state government to avoid much spending on relief materials. May I commend the governor on the activities of the ministry of environment.
It seems to me that since we are in a democratic structure, democracy demands that the truth should be told always and that charlatans as well as saints should be called their proper names according to Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (of blessed memory) first premier of the defunct Western Region made the statement on June 14, 1958 and he was the best president we never had according to Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (of blessed memory).
Consequently, let me salute Your Excellency, a distinguished breed, illustrious, energetic, professional, administrator and indefatigable Chief Executive for carrying Deltans along and this has made him a great man of history and destiny. For his three-point agenda to be efficiently and effectively achieved, let all Deltans dislodge the agent of darkness and destruction no matter how highly or lowly placed. With the ongoing projects, which need to be closely supervised, it seems to me that Governor Uduaghan believes in the statement of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, environmentalist and minority rights crusader when he said in 1989 “On the wider Nigeria plane, it is equally important the relationship among all ethnic nationalities are built on sure foundations, on the principle that both hawk and eagle may perch”.
Charles Ikedikwa Soeze, fhnr, fcida, fcai, cpae, son, emba, ksq
is a mass communications scholar from first degree to doctoral level and Assistant Director (Administrative)/ Head Academic and Physical Planning, Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta state.    
08036724193. charlessoeze@yahoo.ca.

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