From Davis Okpubuluku: “The recent attacked and right to reply displayed by the duo of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan a former Governor of Delta State and Prof. Pat. Utomi an economist and gubernatorial aspirant,has bring to public domain some worrisome tales bothering on Deltans and Delta as a state.
Uduaghans adviced to Utomi to consider vieing for “COUNCILLORSHIP” position, knowing very well that He is gunning for “GOVERNORSHIP” is no doubt given in bad fate and intent.Why am of the view that the ex-governor might be passing a strong message to the opposition party,that has being engulfed by in-house fighting over who controls the party structure at the state level,he might just be a concerned party,who chooses to make a point without meaning bad.Being a political student,groomed under the political tutelage of the Ibori’s dynasty,just like the current Governor(Okowa),Uduaghan no doubt is an expert in the game and may be conveying the message that ‘”the candidature of a new comer,who no doubt is a learner as a guber to that of a well known, rugged aspirant might spell unforseen doom for the party chance to wrestle power from the PDP.Knowing that there is always a sense in nonsense.
Utomi opined that his offence is simply advising the current government against further borrowing, which has the potential of plugging the state into financial crises and jeopardising the future of our children. No doubt,the accusations from Utomi on Uduaghan are grevious enough to throw any sane society into chaos and irked security organs into action. Among others,he accused Uduaghans government of leaving a debt profile of over #600Billion on the state.JESUS!!!Over #600Billion.As we watch for more revelations, the need to take over Dennis Osadebes house from this scatterer,looters and wasters of our common wealth is a task we must rise up to.
From Fred Oghenesivbe Esq (EACGOVDELTA).
The signs are visible, the propaganda synergy is getting more coordinated and the attacks on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as past and present administrations in Delta State by the leaders and chieftains of the Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a strategic dimension.
Politics is basically the struggle for power and political actors do not relent in their individual, collective or group efforts in either retaining the political power or attempt to take over power.
It follows that while PDP Delta and Gov Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa desires to retain political power to further govern the state till 2023, the APC DELTA and its leaders shall mobilize huge financial sources from within and outside Delta State, call for greater political synergy from the centre, deploy strategic and damaging propaganda as a tool to wrestle power from PDP and governor Okowa in 2019.
The recent altercation between the immediate past governor of Delta State, His Excellency Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan and Prof Pat Utomi, an APC DELTA 2019 gubernatorial hopeful is largely traceable to the well planned media politics of the APC, to gradually deflate the Okowa administration by generating political issues on bad governance from the past administration and linking same to the present administration in the state.
The APC DELTA media strategy for which Prof Pat Utomi has been fingered as an arrowhead shall do the needful to utilize systematic “diversionary tactics” as an effective tool of political propaganda to divert the attention and focus of Deltans from the enviable performance of the Okowa administration and subtly appeal to the conscience of the people and gradually gain political popularity.
Prof Ben Kioski of the York University in the United States once posited that media and communication people in politics and government must do everything within their powers to consistently counter propaganda strategies of the opposition if they must deliver their principals at the polls or retain political power.
Kioski further warned that political souls are won faster through propaganda than election campaigns and charged campaign managers and political communication strategists never to ignore the cheapest and most uninteresting propaganda tool in strategic media politics.
Everybody is not a media politician and everybody cannot be a political communication strategist. The more you want to be “jack of all trade, the more you become master of none.” Specialty is key for increased productivity and attainment of our collective goals.
As the Executive Assistant to His Excellency the Governor of Delta State on Communication and as a member of the American Political Science Association (APSA); and International Political Science Association (IPSA), I will not fold my hands and watch the Governor’s political enemies, within and without, deploy propaganda tools or neglects subtle but highly destructive media politics to wreck havoc on the good governance initiatives of the Okowa administration as we approach 2019 election year. It is part of my assigned responsibilities.
In the light of the above, the leaders of the opposition parties particularly APC DELTA and its 2019 gubernatorial aspirants must be ready to taste the bitter pills of their stock in trade “Propaganda, falsehood and blackmail.”
The APC national government has failed Nigerians beyond imagination and yet its shameless leaders still gather some strength to question the integrity of PDP leaders and governors who ruled or govern this country for 16 years without economic recession.
The APC at the centre inherited buoyant economy and ruined it through clueless socioeconomic policies and anti people programmes. The dollar exchanged for N158 in 2015 and crashed under the Buhari administration to a shameful N380 to the dollar.
I will never fold my hands and watch the opposition deploy strategic media politics flavoured in subtle propaganda to gradually wreck havoc on the governor and his administration. We must do the needful, render quality and strategic media advise to His Excellency the Governor so that his political detractors and enemies within and in the opposition do not gain upper hands as we approach the forthcoming general elections.
APC DELTA has no political and electioneering substance in the state but we must think faster and move faster to perpetually relegate the opposition to obscurity and thereafter win the 2019 elecions with a wide margin.
We must not allow the governor’s political detractors and their subtle propaganda to penetrate and gather steam before we counter and puncture them as was the case in 2015 which led to APC victory at the centre.
