Image: Former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan
News currently making the round in the social media and soft sell magazines in Nigeria that immediate past governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan is terribly sick, this reporter can authoritatively report is untrue.
The man fondly called by his traditional title of ‘Asamaigor’, is reportedly sick and even at the tail end of falling into coma.
According to the spin doctors, Uduaghan did a surgical operation on his forehead which busted that made him to be hospitalized.
Extensive checks however revealed that Uduaghan has not been to the hospital for any operation or treatment since he left office, and also not in China Republic as peddled about by some medium.
While this reporter is yet to verify his present abode, reliable information made available states that the former number one citizen of Delta is as fit as a fiddle, and still carries out his weekly exercises.
Uduaghan who is under the radar of this reporter since he left office has decided to keep quiet over reports concerning the billion Naira debt profile in the state, allegedly left behind by him.
Close sources that are with him disclosed that his refusal to speak is for the benefit of the state, as he does not want to distract his successor, Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa, with needless replies, from him or any of his aides.
Fejiro Oliver