Uzum Identifies Selfishness, Greed As Banes Of Delta Politics

By JOHNSON EBIGIDE

Eugene Azuka Uzum has identified selfishness and greed among the political class as responsible for the suffering of the people in Delta State.

Uzum, a lawyer, political analyst, youth advocate and politician, stated this in Asaba while felicitating Christians on the celebration of Easter.

He said that politicians in the state should embrace the spirit of selflessness as exemplified by Christ in their daily life, adding that selfishness and greed among the political class had not only wrecked havoc and caused suffering among the people in the state, but that the twin menace had reduced competence and capacity of individuals in the political class to a laughing stock.

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Uzum maintained that self-centeredness of the rulling class since 1999 had continued to widen the gap between the government and the people, “so much so that even the unborn are no longer interested in any occupation than hijacking political power by all means in the state,” adding that it was unfortunate that the youths had been brainwashed into accepting the wrong perspectives in the state.

While calling for a paradigm shift in the mentality of the political leadership in the state, Uzum enjoined youths to think of their future and avoid being engulfed in the snares of those that were merely window dressing them up for a bleak future through selfishness, greed and anti-people orientation and machinations in the state.