My friend has a rich uncle in Delta. He is a businessman & has always dreamed of becoming a Delta State Governor someday. This has been his greatest ambition and he's decided to go fully into politics in Delta.

My words could sound so myopic but I have always told my friend that his uncle's chance of winning, in another people's geopolitical zone, is very slim.

What's his chance of achieving this in another people's land?

Close to zero. He will never be accepted as a true deltan no matter how long he has lived in the state, the investments he has in the state, the love has for the state. By the time the people he has helped over the years look him in the eyes and tell him you are not one of us he will know there is a difference between American dollar and Zimbabwean dollar. OP can an Igbo man be a governor in Lagos?

He can try, you may never know.

There is a high level of tribalism in Delta. He will never be even a local government chairman in that state