“THERE'S NO ANOINTED SUCCESSOR TO UDUAGHAN'' – Pa E. K. Clark

Few days after the state PDP Chairman, Barr Peter Nwaoboshi declared publicly that there is no anointed successor to Uduaghan. in a statement, political watchers claimed was full of diplomacy, his associate and close friend, the foremost Niger Delta leader and a strong supporter of the power shift agenda of the Delta North senatorial zone, Chief Edwin Clark has equally followed suit by declaring that no candidate has been anointed to succeed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State.

The National Leader of the Ijaw nation made this known while playing host to one of the governorship aspirants in the state, Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege, in his Kiagbodo country home. He said “We all have a stake in the state; Chief Clark alone cannot make it. Let me tell you, I cannot endorse you, but I can give you my blessing, the governor alone cannot do it.

“Recently, I sat down with Dr. Uduaghan and I told him that he alone, me alone can make the governor of Delta State and I told him that those who are using our names should stop same. This state is not meant for rascals or people who never went to school and want to be governor, it will not be allowed.

In what political analysts deduced to be a sarcastical reference to the claims by loyalists of one of the aspirants who is from same ethnic zone with Mr President and Chief Clark that Mr President has endorsed him, Pa Clark thundered “I have said that I do not want to make any statement about the governorship position until Mr. President declares his intention to contest for a second term. So, if anybody comes to tell you that I Chief Clark had held his hand to meet Mr. President, that is a lie.

“We all have a stake, when you come to me like this, I’m an old man, I will give you my blessings and tell you go and fight, meaning go and fight in the primaries. “I have said it, when you are 70 years and above, you are at you departure lodge waiting for your boarding pass. That was what I told them at the national conference when they said Clark you are too old; I stood up and I told them I’m 87 years.

“I waited but God refused to give me my boarding pass, and they said, ‘why,’ I said because God told me, ‘you are one of those that caused the problems in Nigeria and see that they are resolved before you come to me for your boarding pass”, Clark further noted.

Source: AV