Opinion
The Fall Of Uduaghan, Ejele, Askia And Others
Countdown to the 2023 Governorship Election, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Hon. Michael Diden aka Ejele, Bashorun Askia Ogieh and so many others ganged up with the greed evil PHARAOH AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR of Delta State Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa to say they want to retire our undisputable National Leader H.E Chief James Ibori from politics.
Before the coming of James Ibori in 1999 to become Governor of Delta State, Uduaghan, Okowa, Ejele, Manager, Amori and so many others couldn’t boast of common 1million naira in their account. James Ibori came with his personal resources and contacts to build the PDP in Delta State. He singlehandedly sponsored the election of everyone in 1999. James Ibori turned boys to men and also built men to stand on their own.
Before 1999, Uduaghan and Okowa were both failed medical doctors and local champions who ventured into politics but still couldn’t succeed in politics until the coming of James Ibori who brought them out of abject poverty and empowered them. We all know the story of how both men grew from the ranks to become Governor through the efforts of James Ibori.
Ejele was a plywood loader in Sapele and the chairman of plywood loaders association before James Ibori picked him and changed his life.
Amori was a plumber in Benin with his company name Amodrill before James Ibori changed his life. I can go on and on to give details of how James Ibori made everyone today in Delta politics.
You will agree with me that James Ibori’s choice of projecting both Uduaghan and Okowa to become Governors was based on academic qualifications, pedigree, experience, competence and capacity. And we all know how Uduaghan wanted a less qualified candidate to succeed him instead of a more experienced and competent Okowa then. James Ibori stood his ground because he believed Delta State deserves the best and is supposed to be govern by the best product available and that was how Okowa became Governor.
But today Okowa after completing his 8 years tenure in office, he decided to go for one of the lowest quality an undocumented illiterate without pedigree to succeed him as Governor in the midst of intellectual Urhobo sons and daughters all over the world.
Okowa thinking he’s wise jettisoned all the criteria used in picking him as Governor to pick someone without pedigree, experience, competence , capacity and above all with a shady academic credentials.
Uduaghan, Ejele , Amori, Askia and so many others supported Okowa the greedy evil PHARAOH AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR of our time to achieve his evil plot but little did they know that Okowa was digging their graves.
Today, we have been vindicated because we warned everyone of them but they failed to listen because of peanuts. Uduaghan as a former Governor couldn’t produce his own local government chairman because Okowa refused and again Uduaghan wanted Val Areyenka to become PDP State Chairman but Okowa refused and picked another stooge Solomon Areyenka.
Ejele also who used the machinery of Delta Political Vanguard to install so many former council Chairmen in the last dispensation can today not boast of installing one Local Government Chairman because Okowa refused. Ejele also signified interest in becoming PDP State party Chairman but Okowa and Sherrif refused and Ejele is busy grumbling around town complaining to those who care to listen of how Sherrif has humiliated him.
Today the James Ibori they all ganged up against to retire is a major player in Abuja National politics while those who plotted to retire him like his envious maternal cousin Uduaghan, Ejele, Amori and the native doctor Askia and others are bitting their fingers now because Okowa systematically used and dumped all of them.
But one thing is sure, Okowa will never go scot free, he must account for all the money he stole and mismanaged as Delta State Governor for 8 years.
Okowa must have his day in prison as a prize for all the evil he perpetrated in Delta State.
Paul Obire Onosakponome writes from Sapele Delta State.