2023: Why I’m not contesting for the senate – Uduaghan

This is as he announced that he is retiring from politics.

He noted that he never picked up the nomination forms for the Senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party but while he was a member of the All Progressives Congress.

“I indicated interest to contest, but at no time did I collect from in the PDP. I only collected in the APC. At no time did I step down, I only stepped aside because of election fatigue,” he said.

But he concluded that having contested a series of elections, he had decided to take a bow from elective politics.

Uduaghan, while speaking on the topic: ‘2023 Elections and Role of the Media,’ noted that by 2023, Nigeria would have enjoyed 24-year unbroken democracy, adding that the media has during the period enjoyed a lot of freedom, unlike under the military.

Uduaghan, however, charged media practitioners in Nigeria to be more objective in their reportage since, according to him, media projections are at times far from reality.

He challenged media owners to be faithful to their workers by paying them as and when due to guard against being influenced negatively by corrupt politicians.

The former governor associated himself with the calls for traditional rulers to be given constitutional roles in governance in Nigeria saying that “with such power, authority and recognition, insecurity challenges will be curbed to a large extent across the nation”.

Also, a former Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, emphasized the need to frontally tackle the insecurity across Nigeria