FRED AJUDUA'S WIFE, PAT, IBORI'S DAUGHTER OTHERS JOSTLE FOR DELTA ASSEMBLY SEATS

Pat Ajudua
 

With political activities on the upward swing all over the country, the womenfolk are gradually taking the front seats in the search for elective offices. For instance, a number of them like Senator Remi Tinubu and Senator Uche Ekwunife and former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, secured seats at the Senate in the elections held penultimate week. This weekend, a few of them will be jostling to occupy Delta House of Assembly seat.

Eriatake is the daughter of the former governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, currently serving jail term in London prison. She is new in the political scene of the state and young enough for the seat, she is banking on the goodwill, popularity and general acceptance of his father, who largely empowered the people of the state during his eight years period as the governor of the state, to coast to victory. Besides, she is supportive political daughter of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP governor-ship flag-bearer in the state. When she joined the race, she gained quick acceptability of the PDP caucus in the state and her people in Oghara Kingdom. For this reason, she grabbed the party’s ticket to contest the seat unopposed.

Take Ibori

Princess Pat Ajudua is the wife of Chief Fred Ajudua, currently gunning for a third term in the House of Assembly for Oshimili South constituency. She was one of the candidates of PDP that Ibori delivered, alongside Senator Patrick Osakwe, via the Accord Party and thereafter, decamped to the ruling party. She won the constituency seat in 2011 in a landmark judgment delivered at the Court of Appeal in Benin, Edo State, in 2012. She is in the race again, but this time, the candidate of the All Peoples Grand Alliance in Ibusa axis of the state, is posing a serious threat. Her chances of returning to the House are very high.

Ms Uyi Ogbemudia is a daughter of two time governor of old Midwest and Bendel State (now Edo and Delta states), Dr Samuel Ogbemudia. The Uhunmwonde-born politician, like her father, is not a pushover in the realm of politics. As a chieftain of the PDP, she is strongly eyeing the Oredo West constituency seat in the State House of Assembly. Ms. Ogbemudia was a Commissioner for Education during the 18 months administration of ex-PDP Governor of the state, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor. With the strong backing of associates of her father and the popularity of the octogenarian, the candidate stands tall among the Binis and she is expected to clinch the top seat considering the high population of voters in the constituency in the South Senatorial District of the state.