No Virtue In The Manner Keyamo, Others Promote Oborevwori As Detribalised Governor

This propaganda about Sherrif Oborevwori as a detribalised governor will not sell for me. And non Urhobos who promote it actually mean it as mockery.

It is never, will never be to the favour of Urhobo Nation. Ifeanyi Okowa took tribalism in office as Delta governor to a petty level. After benefitting from it, I laugh when Anioma people pretentiously promote the subject of a detribalised Oborevwori.

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Those who call me a tribalist for pointing that the governor is undermining and mocking his native Urhobo Nation by his warped expression of a detribalised governor are mocking Oborevwori. They are enemies of Urhobo Nation.

There is no virtue in Oborevwori being detribalised when Urhobo as majority are being humiliated like they are the minority in Delta. Today, entire Urhobo has no full fledged University. Delta State University, Abraka is just one campus of a varsity bulkanized by petty politics. Delta Central has no full fledged university of its own.

DELSU’s Faculties of Engineering, Law are in Oleh, Delta South. DELSU’s Faculty of Agriculture is in Anwai, Asaba, Delta North. DELSU’s Teaching Hospital is in Oghara in Ethiope West LGA. What is left in the main campus of DELSU in Abraka?

Federal University of Petroleum University Resources (FUPRE) is not a full fledged University. It is restricted to petroleum studies. So there is no full fledged University in the entire Urhobo land.

Okowa established two full fledged Universities in Delta North while he established another in Ozoro, Isoko. It was all about undermining Urhobo nation.

The three universities established by Okowa are: Delta State University Agbor, Dennis Osadebey University Asaba, University of Science and Technology Ozoro.

We prevailed on Okowa to name Delta State University Abraka as Olorogun Felix Ibru University. Okowa refused but he established Dennis Osadebey University, Asaba.

Is Oborevwori not seeing the handwriting on the wall? Oborevwori is being mocked that he is a detribalised governor and he is excited about it.

The Delta Governor Office Annex, Warri has been abandoned since Okowa was elected governor. Under Ibori and Uduaghan all state security meetings were held in Delta Governor Office Annex, Warri for 16years.

Okowa demobilised the place intentionally. Whether you like it or not Delta’s wealth is majorly from the Delta Central and Delta South.
Gov Oborevwori should wise up and stop being mocked as a detribalised governor.

God created tribalism. God created racial variances. God created human beings with different colours of skin, hair, eyes, language. If God had created human beings with one colour of skin, eyes, hair, language and accent there would have been no divisions among human beings in the world. Human beings can’t fault God because he is all knowing and omnipotent.

Oborevwori should stop not being misled as a detribalised governor.
Those who will fault me should know that zoning is encouraged for people of different languages, tribes and sections to taste power to help their people more.

In Europe and America it is racism. In Africa it is tribalism. If human beings have one colour of skin, hair, eyes, language, accent there wouldn’t have been racism and tribalism in the world. God doesn’t make errors. Urhobo needs a full fledged University and not a campus of university.

To Gov Oborevwori, I charge you, never miss the rare opportunity to develop your locality. Festus Keyamo was in your child’s marriage in Asaba recently. Please interface with him and agree on how to expand Osubi-Warri Airport runway/tarmac to enable big aircrafts land and take off.

Govenor Oborevwori is a detribalised governor and bridge builder to humiliate his Urhobo Nation. He refused to personally present staff of office to Ovie of Agbarha-Warri Kingdom against passionate appeal from Urhobo elites, including me.

Gov Oborevwori felt too big to present staff of office to an Urhobo monarch who was his childhood friend. His flimsy excuse was that he has delegated staff of office presentation to his Deputy. But Oborevwori excitedly presented staff of office to Asagba of Asaba. What a shameful oddity?

We advocated that NCDMB headquarters should be taken to Warri but Jonathan took the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to Yenagua, his home state of Bayelsa.

Obasanjo relocated NPA’s head office from Abuja to Lagos. Tinubu relocated Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN)’s head office to Ikeja, Lagos. Buhari damned the consequences and appointed his Fulani/Hausa people to dominate his federal administration of APC.

Tinubu has appointed majorly Yoruba people in his cabinet and every significant office with his Yoruba people and here Governor Oborevwori is being praised and commended for humiliating his Urhobo people in the name of being called a bridge builder and detribalised governor, even by Festus Keyamo who was said to have represented Tinubu in Oborrvwori’ son’s marriage in Asaba.

Why should Oborevwori have his son’s wedding in Winners Church in Asaba instead of Osubi near Warri or Effurun- Warri. The traditional marriage that took place at Plantation City in Otokutu, apparently where the groom’s parents are living, would have even been the main marriage event Oborevwori supposed to have invited the who is who he invited to the Church Wedding.

Church Wedding is a mere duplication of marriage. He should have invited the dignitaries to Otokutu, another Urhobo town, to showcase his heritage, his custom and tradition to the world through the marriage.

But even when he chose to make the church wedding the main event, why staged it at Asaba and not Osubi, his home community. That Church Wedding should have taken place in Osubi town. Osubi has become cosmopolitan of late. Is Oborevwori ashamed of bringing the world to his home town of Osubi? He is just a tenant at Asaba.

What will be Oborevwori’s gain if he refused to promote his Urhobo Nation in Delta government? Agreed he is governor of the entire Delta state but the governorship slot was zoned to Urhobo in Delta Central.

Agreed Tinubu is the president of Nigeria but his appointments are majorly his Yoruba people. Buhari was a president of Nigeria but his appointments favoured his Fulani/Hausa people. Jonathan is Ijaw from Bayelsa and his appointments as President mostly tilted to his Ijaw people in the South South.

Why the zoning of Presidency and governorship seats? It is aimed to balance power sharing because every section of the country benefits more if your tribe’s person is the governor or president and that is the reality on ground and not hear say.

Tinubu has appointed his Yoruba brother to head the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN). It is a glaring fact and here Oborevwori is being praised for humiliating his Urhobo people.

The other day he was seated while Urhobo traditional rulers, including his own monarch, the Orodje of Okpe, conferred chieftaincy title on him at Uvwiamuge in Urhobo Day celebration that was boycotted by Urhobo patriots because of the partisanship and greed of the UPU Leadership under Ese Gam.

But Oborevwori stood like a loyal subject to present staff of office to a seated Asagba of Asaba Monarch. Same staff of office he was too big to present to an Urhobo king in Agbarha-Warri.

Governance was felt in Warri when Ibori and Uduaghan were elected governors. Oborevwori is more of a governor favorable to Asaba and Delta North more than Delta Central and Delta South.

No virtue in that.

Zik Gbemre
December 23,2024

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