Ex-Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has eventually opened up on his successor, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa: “I am sure all of you know that by the time I left, Governor Okowa went to the House of Assembly to make a presentation and of course the next headline was that Governor Uduaghan has left N700 billion debt in Delta state.”

“I requested for the governor’s speech to see if he said that but there was nowhere in that speech where the governor mentioned it. But somehow, either his media aides or some people just made it up. I had an option to counter the information out rightly but I decided to be quiet about it. There were so many ramifications, the governor was just coming in, that was his first outing, then I counter his first outing, it has its own challenges but I decided to be quiet about it.”

“Somehow the N700 billion has been coming down because at a time, the ministry of finance said it was N355billion and at another time they gave another figure of a little above N200 billion. It is still coming down.”

“E never reach where I leave am. E go soon reach where I leave am but e never reach. If you people bother to read my handover notes, una go know where I leave am.”

“Even when the state government has tried to correct it, people still refer to that initial figure of N700 billion till today.”