By EMMA AMAIZE, WARRI
DIRECTOR-GENERAL, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Campaign Council, Delta State, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, said yesterday that Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan did not, at any time, before, during and after the just concluded general elections, make any oath with any person from any ethnic origin in the state to appoint such a person Secretary to the State Government, SSG.
Speaking against the backdrop of a protest by Ijaw women in Warri over the appointment of Chief Akpeki who was until recently the Commissioner for Orientation and Communication as the Secretary to the Delta State Government, Akpeki said the demonstration was embarrassing as the prerogative to appoint anybody to any position, irrespective of ethnic inclination or any other criteria, rested squarely with the governor.
His words: “I can say authoritatively that the state governor did not make any allusion, or explicit statement, whatsoever, that a particular ethnic group had already been penciled down for the high sensitive office of SSG.”
He, therefore, expressed disgust that a sensitive issue as the appointment of SSG, which only the governor had the prerogative to decide upon, would be cheaply politicized and reduced to the uninformed banter of market-women.
Chief Akpeki called for restraint from all and sundry on the issue of the re-constitution of the State Executive Council, SEC, emphasizing that Dr. Uduaghan would be fair to all.
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Uduaghan didn’t make oath with anybody on SSG – Akpeki