By Zik Gbemre
The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for Anioma State.
To use his defection as a guise to intensify his ethnic discrimination against incumbent Governor Sheriff Oborevwori is, to say the least, disgusting, so reproachable, going by the trending utterances attributed to him.
Yes, some may be quick to say here, don’t you do same thing, criticize Gov Oborevwori. But anyone familiar with my advocacy for probity and good governance could easy tell the big difference.
I’m not the stereotypical Nigerian ‘professional’ politician, card carrying party members they call them. I don’t engage in partisan criticism. For those who think I’ve lashed Governor Oborevwori too much already, they have a short sense of history and simply being pretentious.
In isolation of Olorogun Felix Ibru who was irreproachable as Governor, I have criticized all past governors that have led the PDP hegemony of arrested development over Delta since 1999. I’ve called to question the irresponsible leadership of the PDP predecessors of Oborevwori far more that the incumbent governor.
It’s nothing personal. It’s mainly about the system that imposes on Delta without the peoples votes counting to hijack leadership to sustain the ‘PDP share the money’ prime objective to filter the commonwealth into the cabal’s private vaults why leaving the people with a culture of shoddy projects that don’t last the test of time.
Without losing focus of the intention to address Ned Nwoko’s drift into pettiness, he’s not being sincere in his growing attacks on Governor Oborevwori. He’s proving to be a paranoid ethnic bigot.
Nwoko calls Oborevwori “a small boy who doesn’t respect me anymore because he became governor by default. Sheriff, is not a match for me anywhere.
Excuse me, Mr cocky Senator. What impudence? Didn’t Oborevwori become governor by default? Did your brother, Ifeanyi Okowa not become governor by default as Oborevwori?
Didn’t yourself,Ned Nwoko become Senator by default, on same party platform as the governor? It’s obvious Ned Nwoko worked against Oborevwori for governor.
So for Ned Nwoko, the only governor he would respect is one who is his match or may be of higher societal standing than himself. What fallacy of judgement?
The Ned Nwoko goes, “He (Oborevwori) doesn’t have the capacity to be a governor where we are. He has not delivered to my expectations. We have projects that I told him that are needed to be done for the people which he refused to do.”
First, how does Nwoko measure capacity. Did Okowa, his Anioma brother display as much capacity as Oborevwori has displayed during his time?
Okowa saturated Delta state with fake, shoddy projects, duplicated DELSU with glorified secondary schools everywhere and sank the treasury neck depth to pay for projects he never executed in the state.
Today,Oborevwori is building multiple fly over bridges at a go with a top rated contractor and moving a paste far faster than Okowa.
And he is doing that while battling to deliver projects Okowa collected money for with nothing to show just as the incumbent is battling to settle choking debts he inherited from Okowa.
So how does Nwoko measure lack of capacity? If he was worried about lack of capacity, the first person he should have accused was Okowa, not Oborevwori.
And to meet his expectations, Ned Nwoko expects Oborevwori to deliver all projects he needed the governor to do for his village people which he accuses the governor of refusing to do.”
Senator, these same expectations and projects lingered throughout the time of Okowa as governor. If Okowa who concentrated his development in your Anioma couldn’t deliver these projects and expectations, how much did you hate Okowa or pick fight with him? Why are you this pretentious and tribalistic?
Besides, it has been exposed that the major expectation you placed on Oborevwori is for him to commit Delta money to an abandoned federal power project. Did you also harass Okowa to do the project in his time?
Then Ned Nwoko said, “My first concern in leaving PDP is to make sure that there’s enough time for me to get some things done through federal government. I’m tired of being in Delta and almost like in opposition, because I tell them what to do, they don’t want to do it, I keep telling them.”
Imagine, Ned Nwoko,you should step down from that high horse of yours. If you want Oborevwori’s job, you want to be governor of Delta, wait to contest in 2027. There can be two governors at a time.
Your job is not tell President Bola Tinubu through legislative sagacity to bring federal projects to your constituents. You can be a parralel governor in Delta state. You can’t advise, suggest as a party man, but it is not your place to tell a sitting governor what to do.
Among other official channels, you have a State Assembly member representing your constituency. Channel your desire through him. Confer with them and articulate common ground to impress on the governor. Like or disrespect him, you can’t bully Oborevwori to do what you couldn’t bully Okowa to do.
Then you insinuate that your spat with Oborevwori and divisions in PDP are key reasons you had to leave PDP. You must be taking all Deltans for a fool.
Governor Ododo created an Office of the Immediate Past Gov for Yahaya Bello in Kogi. He’s APC. Is a placeholder Ododo better than Oborevwori?
Ned Nwoko entered the Senate as PDP. He should go and sit down and wait how 2027 will serve him. Any politician who crosses carpet while sitting on an elective office from the platform that elected him does not deserve public respect.
Is the APC Nwoko crossed to, less divided than the PDP he is leaving? Does APC exists even in his home Delta? APC is so factionalised no single person is in charge, even at the national level.
Governor Oborevwori is not the problem of Ned Nwoko.
‘Make he waka far go where contain am’.
Zik Gbemre
February 7,2025
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