A Chieftain of the APC, Chief Dr Ominimini Obiuwevbi has
described Delta State governor, Sen Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as a very bad man and an
unrepentant ethnic bigot who has defined himself as a one-term governor and
should never be allowed to rule Delta again.
Chief Ominimini gave the assessment while fielding questions
from journalists; Saturday, Sept 9 in Ughelli during the occasion of the decamp
of Olorogun Ovoke Oshasha ( a former stalwart of the PDP ) to APC.
Asked to comment on the new entrant the APC has received in
the person of Olorogun Oshasha and his followers, Ominimini said: “There are
certain things you do not need a soothsayer to tell. From what is going on in
Delta, there is a State mood or State thinking which philosophically can be
described as what will come to be very shortly. The State mood right now is
that Okowa has defined himself as a one-term governor.
“Okowa comes from an area that does not contribute any
tangible revenue to the coffers of Delta State, either by internally generated revenue
(IGR) or by oil derivation. These two sources, IGR and federal allocation by
oil derivation and even VAT; nothing comes from Okowa home area. The State
thinking right now in another direction is that it will be difficult for
somebody who does not come from an oil producing area of Delta State to become
the next governor because, Okowa is developing his local government area at the
detriment of other local government areas. The infrastructural development of
these other local government areas is few but those from Okowa Ika area will
tell you Okowa is working because there is no even distribution of amenities.
“When the Urhobo man was there during the time of late Felix
Ibru, there was equal distribution of infrastructure, when Ibori an Urhobo man
was there, there was spread of infrastructure and when Uduaghan was there,
there was also spread to a reasonable extent. But Okowa has eroded the spirit
of unity and unison. Okowa has defined himself as an ethnic bigot.
“Some of us thought that with detergent or science through
the application of chemicals, the nostrils of the dog can be changed from its
true black colour but we have been proven wrong by nature that the nose of the
dog can never be changed even with an invention of detergent and that is what
Okowa has taught us-a bad man is a bad man.
Commenting on the fate of local government workers in Delta
State who are owed salaries running over 13 months, Ominimini said: “Workers in
Delta State should use the instrument of collective bargaining to suffocate
Okowa because as it is, the Joint Account is made as a relief to the local
governments but instead, it is now a punishment.
“What comes from the federal government by way of allocation
is being frittered by Okowas and what gets to the local governments is less
than what comes to them actually from the Federal Government. Okowa uses the
instrument of the joint account to siphon the money of the local governments
and thereby putting the local government workers into untold hunger. We do not
need a governor such as this and may God help us” Ominimini said.
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