His Excellency Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan briefed the press on the activities of his administration so far and his developmental plans for the year 2013. In an interactive session with the press today 31st January 2013 at the press centre , government house Asaba, the governor stated that the contract for section A of the Ughelli Asaba Road Dualization has been revoked and section B and C are on going.He said that the government is concentrating on road in this dry season and it is obvious that road construction is going on every where in all parts of the state.
According to him, "Another aspect of the infrastructural development that we are working on is the construction of new schools and upgrade of existing schools. We are going to commence the second phase as soon as the budget is passed.
As part of the human capital development agenda of this administration, our scholarship schemes are going on. The next batch will be school of aviation and marine schools. Our micro credit scheme is going on, we have just released 1 billion Naira to the directorate in charge of poverty alleviation . We are partnering with UNIDO to establish a shoe factory in Asaba. In the next few weeks, we will sign the MOU. We have already released our own part of the fund in the partnership"
Similarly, the governor said that the ministry of commerce and industry has established four fish mills and cassava processing plant.He noted that the peace and security agenda received a major boost this period with the ban on okada  except recently when we recorded some cases of security breach. "We have identified those areas and we hope to extend the ban to those areas but we are trying to provide alternative means of transportation before the ban"
A respondent from Sapele complained about Levant Construction Company, whose tractors and other heavy equipments that they use in constructing Sapele Abigborodo road has been consistently damaging the Ugberikoko road while  going to work at the Abigborodo road and the governor in his response said that the road has been awarded for construction adding that the contractor will soon move to site. Another respondent from Asaba thanked the governor for building Asaba airport and asked the governor to throw more light on the total cost of the Asaba airport in view of the controversy it has generated in the press. The governor in his response stated that the total cost of the Asaba airport is 27.7 billion and the cost of leveling the hills around the airport is part of the total cost but because there is a delay on the part of the contractor in executing that aspect of the job and there is the need for cargo plane to use that airport, that part of the job was extracted from  the contract and awarded to another company. This has therefore put to rest the unfounded rumor propagated by the opposition that our  Comrade Governor awarded the leveling of the hills separately . On this premise therefore , the governor admonished journalist in the state to cross check information before publishing . He noted that the Asaba international airport is the best that any state government has constructed in the whole of the country and it is also the cheapest. 
The governor talked about environmental and traffic marshals in which the bill is before the state house of assembly . He said that as soon as the bill is passed, our youths will be engaged to do the job in a bid to reduce the effect of traffic congestion orchestrated by the ban on Okada.
The issue of the three polytechnic was brought to the fore and the governor stated that work has commenced in the Sapele Poly but the Abigborodo poly contractor later said that the money was too small for him to do the the job and the process of reawarding it had started before he came back again to accept the job for that amount.
In a related development, His Excellency , Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan  presented brand new Toyota Corolla to a teacher (Mr. Akamaka Luwis) in West End Mixed Secondary school as an award of excellence for diligent services to the state. The governor also provided gift items and learning materials to students of various institutions for excelling in education.
Uduaghan three point  agenda is working, to God be the  glory. God bless the architect of modern Delta State.
By Comrade Sanco Ovie