-By Zik Gbemre
Governorship Sheriff Oborevwori has not defected to the APC. I challenge him to prove me wrong by displaying the proof that he has joined.
Politics is local in Nigeria. Irrespective of position or status, every political party’s rules of engagement stipulates that you join, resign and defect through your home Ward.
The PDP where Oborvwori is claiming to be defecting from has sacked a National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, through a resolution of his ward leadership.
All the drama of a London meeting with President Tinubu, the meetings in Abuja and the shamelessness Festus Keyamo led gullible Delta Senators and Reps members to display at Asaba can best be described as mere consultation towards joining the APC.
All of these dramas again affirm that these politicians don’t care about the common good. It’s always appalling how easy the stereotypically depraved Nigerian politicians can easily trade their self esteem, integrity, even their souls for display of false loyalty for political patronage and stomach infrastructure.
Festus Keyamo, chief probity and accountability advocate, a SAN was among the most vociferous in the failed bid to stop Oborevwori who muscled self into being governor with ‘cut and nail’ credentials. It is appalling that today, Keyamo has shamelessly transformed into chief campaigner for Oborevwori’s second term bid.
Keyamo has suddenly become the most gullible promoter of misgovernment over Delta, blabbing that three ongoing flyover projects now make Oborevwori unbeatable for the 2027 race when in neighboring Rivers state, a single Port Harcourt Ring Road project by embattled Governor Siminalayi Fubara has more than double Oborevwori’s three flyover projects.
So appalling that months after harping that Oborevwori is not qualified to lace his shoes, that Oborevwori shouldn’t count in the choice of Delta governor where he is, another lawyer, Sen Ned Nwoko, has eaten his words and now smiling like ‘mumu’ as Keyamo glorifies Oborevwori as “Our Undisputed Leader”. Oborevwori has become lord over Nwoko, Emerhor, Omo-Agege and everyone with a name in Delta APC.
Because Oborevwori is under pressure to open Delta vaults for ‘PDP share the money’ to ‘APC share the money’, Keyamo and Nwoko now believe in the blind and ignorant leading the full sighted and informed. A pity.
Keyamo, a Lagos, Abuja politician who only accepts he is an Ephron (Effurun) Deltan when election approaches is quick to fly into Asaba to glorify Oborevwori as the 2027 unbeatable guber aspirant.
Keyamo, weeks after appointment as Aviation Minister played to the gallery that President Tinubu had approved N2Billion upgrade for the Osubi Airstrip. While I queried that the approval wasn’t enough for the expansion the Osubi needs, he hasn’t even been forthcoming to do the N2Billion work many months after. He may never bring any tangible project to Delta before he exits office.
So he is Aviation Minister, but can’t fly direct into Delta state to access his Ephron (Effurun) home community. He would need to land in neighboring Edo state and drive a collapsed Benin-Effurun Road to reach his Ephron (Effurun) home town.
His ministerial appointment is not finding any expression in the development of Delta, but it’s easy for him to defend that an unfit governor running from his drowning PDP is unbeatable in coming 2027 guber race for Delta. Clowns and greedy gluttons everywhere in Delta state.
Agreed Governor Oborevwori and Okowa have indicated interest to join APC, but there is yet no evidence to show that Oborevwori and Okowa have resigned their membership of PDP in their home wards and no evidence to show they have joined APC at their home wards.
Oborevwori and Okowa can’t defect to APC at Asaba, Abuja and on the media. Do Oborevwori and Okowa vote in Asaba or Abuja during elections? Oborevwori, at all cost, wants to have one leg on PDP, one on APC. It’s Delta’s treasury he wants to empty to share all over the place to please the expectant gluttons who have sold their souls to glorify him.
It will never be well with the hijackers of power impoverishing Delta state and escalating mass poverty and hunger for the majority in a state so blessed by God.
Zik Gbemre
April 29,2025
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