How I Wrote a Post That Touched the Governor's Heart...

Arts and Craft Centre, Emede, Isoko South, Delta State

Well, it was a few days before Valentine in 2015, and the Governor of  Delta State then, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON, had written a post in one of the popular facebook page I belong to, Umeh Need Road, that he would love to commission Umeh road on Valentine's day. Interestingly, the 7.1 kilometres Umeh road was purely social media-driven and was constructed across the very terribly swampy area of Umeh, a village in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.

Meanwhile, I had a request that had been gnawing at me to make to the governor about a similar completed

ARCHIVE: Letter To The Executive Governor, Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON

Below is the letter that 'touched the heart of the governor'. About two months after this letter was written, he personally commissioned the Centre. Happy reading...


Dear Executive Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan

INVITATION TO TENDER - BE OUR VAL!

SIR,
I write you this love-letter on behalf of all the Positive Isoko Women and hope it gets to you before Valentine's day so you can put smiles on our faces by being our val ... at Emede Arts and Craft Centre, (hereafter referred to as EACC).

This may be the longest love-letter you ever get, so I will advice you please sit down, sip a Chai Latte and be

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