Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has avoided lobbyists, including former commissioners for about three weeks to enable him consider truthfully and perceptively those to appoint into the State Executive Council, SEC, and also offer other political appointments in the new dispensation.
Vanguard was reliably told that the governor had made his office and home inaccessible to some categories of persons since he announced the dissolution of his cabinet and other political offices, early this month, but he had appointed a Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Ovuozourie Macaulay, Chief of Staff, Dr. Felix Okubor and chairman of the State Task Force on Sanitation, Mr. Olori Magege.
Anxiety was high at Asaba when Vanguard visited, over the weekend, and asked the reason for the delay, the governor said, “There is no delay, in the next few days, I will send some names, it may not be all, while some discussions are going on and screening are going on, I will send the ones that are ready so that at least, our cabinet can kick off”.
On whether Deltans should be expecting a huge or prune back cabinet, he asserted, “When you see the number, you will know whether it is large or not, but there are so many things that affects the formation of a cabinet, like you are aware, political considerations is one of them and also, the state of your finances, whether you can shoulder them”.
There was speculation that the former Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara, former Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, who name was actually submitted for screening as SSG, former Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Richard Mofe-Damijo and two other old commissioners would make it back to the cabinet, but the governor taciturn on his plan when asked by Vanguard.
SOURCE; VANGUARD NEWS
