Former Governor Reveals Spiritual Strength
OpenLife Nigeria reports that a former governor of Delta State, Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan has revealed his spiritual secret which has enable him survived Nigeria’s and Delta State political jungles.
Speaking in an interview earlier published in Vanguard, Uduaghan noted that politics is not for the lily livered, citing rumours, permutations, strategies and of course back stabbing as key elements in Politic.
For instance, the former governor explained that, “Delta is a state that has a rumour industry that is really thriving. In fact, the industry does not only just have a chairman, it has a board of directors, and I have been a victim.”
Continuing, the two term governor stressed that he has been to survive political traps because of the grace and mercy of God Almighty.
He disclosed that he is grateful to God for making a ‘small voice’ that spiritually guild his political activities.
On the crises amongst the political gladiators in Delta State, which, in the first instance, pushed him to join the All Progressives Congress, APC at a time, Uduaghan explained that his return to APC was a spiritual directive from God through the “Small voice.”
According to him, “I just woke up one morning and I have a small voice that talks to me from time to time, and which had made me survive many battles.
You know that I had many battles and I survived most of them because of that small voice. Most times, it is when I am having my bath that most of my decisions are taken or when I wake up at the early hours of the day. Therefore, as I woke up one morning, the first thing I heard was ‘Go and work with the governor.’ I thought I did not hear well, the voice came again, “Go and work with the governor’. I told myself ah, but I recognized the voice.
I told myself it is as if they were telling me to go and put my head on the slab, but the instruction kept ringing in my ears even while asleep. Therefore, when I was reflecting during the day, I said to myself, ‘this one that God was asking me to go and do something, and I am refusing, let me not end up like Jonah.’ That is how I now called my senatorial chairman and told him to call a meeting of the senatorial district, and that I wanted to talk to them.
However, I was also apprehensive because I know that the state has been divided into various groups and all, and I do not even know whether my senatorial chairman and secretary do not belong to different groups. However, I told the chairman that I do not want any factional meeting; that I wanted a PDP meeting and he told me he would call everybody.
About one hour later, somebody called me and said he heard I was calling a meeting, he asked if I had told the governor, I said no, asking him why I should obtain permission from the governor; that this is my senatorial district. All the same, after that, I also sent a text message to the governor, and within 30 minutes, he called me, saying that he heard I was calling a senatorial meeting, and that it is very good.
I pretended as if I did not hear him well and asked him, what did you say? He said ‘it is very good.’ I said, ‘that is very strange because some people said you would disown me’. He laughed, and said, ‘disown you, why? I said, ‘they said you would be angry that I am calling this kind of meeting.’ He said no, ‘why should he get angry.’ That he was busy at the national and knew that there were challenges in the state, and he needed somebody of my pedigree and capacity to be able to handle some of the challenges. That he knows that if I talk, they will respect me, and I said okay. He said he would be back the next week and that was how I went ahead with the meeting.
At the meeting, the hall was full to capacity, and everybody from all sides was all there. I started appealing to them that the primaries were over, some people have tickets, and the fight should be over, except we want to destroy the party in the state. That those who had the ticket, should approach those that did not get, and try to make peace, and seek their support for the main election because the main election is the bigger issue than the primaries,” he narrated.
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