The grand reception and award of excellence hosted by the Delta State Traditional Rulers’ Council held Thursday December 19, 2019 in Asaba, the state capital, has come and gone, but the dust raised by the event will take quite some time to settle. The uncharacteristic outburst by the immediate past governor of the state, Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan who was conspicuously missing from the roll call of awardees and prominent sons and daughters of the state invited to the event, once again underscored the no love lost relationship between him and his successor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa. The political colouration given the event by the organizers appeared also to have diminished the import of the ceremony. The Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Councils, Obi Emmanuel Efeizomor II, had remarked that award recipients were being honoured for their roles in the development of the state. The anger of the former governor and his loyalists, however, was that if the yardstick to qualify for the award was contribution to the development of the state, he was eminently qualified to make the honours list. Among those honoured at the event by the royal fathers were Okowa, his deputy, Kingsley Otuaro, and the first civilian governor of the state in the present democratic dispensation, James Ibori...read more
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