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: http://www.dailyindependentnig.com/2014/11/urhobo-vows-vote-jonathan/

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