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The brawl between former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and renowned economist, Prof. Pat Utomi was on Saturday put to rest.
The war of words between the Delta State 2019 All Progressives Congress, APC governorship aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi and the immediate past governor of the state, lasted for months.
However, in the early hours of Saturday, both men were reconciled by the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.
Recall TheNewsGuru.com had earlier published in details, reports of the altercation between the duo [Uduaghan and Utomi], which was fueled by comments made by the renowned economist, Utomi, that all past governments in Delta State have failed the people.
Uduaghan, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, responded by describing Utomi, who is seeking to become the governor of Delta State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, as a failed businessman and economist.
Dr. Utomi, in response to Dr. Uduaghan’s charge on him (Utomi) to start his aspiration from the councillorship level, urged the former governor to give account of the N20 billion expended on the Independent Power Project, IPP.
Uduaghan, responded by affirming that Utomi does not have what it takes to be governor of Delta State given what he claimed were Utomi’s legacies at Volkswagen Nigeria and as coordinator of the South-South Summit held in Asaba, Delta State.
In the course of their streams of exchange of invective, Utomi was himself put under more pressure after Chief Paulinus Akpeki, a former commissioner in the state who served as an adviser to Uduaghan, said his former boss brought meaningful impact to the development of the state.
Udugahan had also during a stakeholders’ meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Asaba at the time, urged Utomi to contest the councillorship seat in his ward and stop spreading falsehood against past leaders of the state in his quest to contest the 2019 governorship election.
But Utomi said that he will prefer that “Uduaghan gives account for the Independent Power Plant, IPP project abandoned in Oghara which has gulped over N20 billion.”