The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District,
Sen. Peter O Nwaoboshi, has hit back at the Delta State Commissioner for
information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, regarding
the Fallacious and laughable 'Arise Television/This Day' Press Statement of 3rd
July, 2021.
According to a press release signed by the Legislative Aide
to SPON, Mr Philip Elueme, he said that Charles Aniagwu should stop jestering
and shooting above his 'amateurish partisan political' level, all in a bid to
satisfy his pay master with laughable, fallacious concocted tales by moonlight
diatribes about Governor Okowa's so called 'Political scholarship and
craftsmanship' since they do not exist in the manner he mischievously stated
them nor are they supported by historic facts, as has been shown here.
Excerpt is the full text of the press release:
The laughable, incredible and fallacious outburst from the
kindergarten political neophyte, Mr
Charles Aniagwu, the Commissioner for
information, Delta State has been brought to the attention of Most
Distinguished Sen. Peter O Nwaoboshi,
SPON, representing the Good People of Delta North Senatorial District.
This is the height of ridiculous arrogance and an
unforgivable act from a nobody in the ranks of Political operators in his LGA
talk less of Delta State with absolutely no
institutional memory of the Political inner workings of the
political activities in PDP Delta State.
For God's sake, Who is Mr. Charles Aniagwu politically in
Delta State partisan political equation of PDP to understand Political issues
so much that he can make such a false statement to the effect that SPON is a
beneficiary of the Political scholarship and craftsmanship of Dr. Sen. Ifeanyi
Okowa, the Governor of Delta State?
Even Sen. Okowa will be embarrassed with such gross
misrepresentation of facts. What an unfortunate master pleaser with
embarrassing falsehoods to please a master and a public who knows better.
Mr Aniagwu is a journalist who came into Delta State
Politics after Gov Okowa's election in 2015 as Governor and he was appointed
into office as the Chief Press Secretary. Thus he is not with the hands on requisite
cognate institutional memory of Political activities within the Delta PDP;
hence he can only make this ridiculous statement geared towards titillating the
fancy of his employer who knows better!
Fundamentally, the life blood of any Politician is the
structure of the Political Party he/she belongs to and how he or she fits into
it, particularly more for politicians seeking elective positions. More so since
the Nigerian electoral system does not have a place for independent candidates.
Thus, every politician seeking elective position must run under the platform of
a Political Party. Thus, it becomes imperative to dwell into the formation,
development, defence and building of the
PDP Party structure in Delta State,
tracing it from 1998 to the year 2015 and beyond. It was this Political
Party structure/hegemony that brought Governor Okowa into office severally
until he became Governor.
Let's consider the following facts of history:
A) Firstly, SPON was the pioneer State Secretary of PDP,
Delta State. The Party Secretariat started from his modest law chambers in
Asaba. SPON was therefore instrumental
in 'nurturing/ crafting' from infancy the young PDP from formation and setting
up it's processes all geared towards election winning ways in Delta State.
When the structure of Delta State PDP was threatened by the
late Dr Felix Ibru camp after the first 1998/99 local government elections in
Delta State; SPON was the spokesman who defended the position of the James
Ibori, Ighoyota Amori, James Manager and Peter Nwaoboshi, etc, led Delta State
PDP Exco, before the National Working Committee under the Chairmanship of late
Chief Solomon Lar as National chairman. Chief OkwesiliEze Nwodo was the
National Secretary and is very much alive to confirm this fact. Indeed there
are many witnesses of SPON's brilliance that saved the day for the
authentication of the State Exco.
B) Secondly about the year 2010/11 the Delta State PDP
Structure was again threatened by Chief E.K.Clark and his very formidable
polical group which had the sympathy of the Presidency and the President. Again to the rescue came SPON who went to
court as the then State Chairman and won; thereby securing the authenticity of
the PDP State Exco.
Curiously, it was this structure of PDP, stabilized, nurtured
and defended stoutly by SPON and others, that Dr Okowa rode on to emerge as the
gubernatorial candidate of PDP in 2015 and eventually the elected Governor of
Delta State.
A thought provoking and glaring question begging for answer
then is, where was Gov. Okowa's so called Political craftsmanship when Delta
State PDP structure was being threatened, severally?
C) Third and most fundamentally, SPON hosted the last
Pre-State Congress meeting of Delta North PDP leaders in 2015 (election eve) in
his Asaba residence, where Dr. Okowa was
adopted as the Delta North aspirant to be voted for as its candidate for the
Governorship. It is instructive to note that this was made possible after Dr
Okowa 'knelt down pleading' for SPON's support. This was smoothened by the
direct and indirect lobbying of SPON by ANIOMA prominent traditional rulers,
Leaders of thought, and prominent Delta North PDP leaders and stakeholders.
D) It is clear from the foregoing that without the defence
of the PDP State Structure that was instrumental as the vehicle that Dr Okowa
utilized to win the candidature of the Party cemented on the eve of the 2015
PDP gubernatorial primaries, Dr Okowa would not have been governor of Delta
State today. He did not just emerge from the sky.
E) The foregoing facts of the inner workings of PDP should
be strange to a Political neophyte and an upstart which Mr Charles Aniagwu
represents being a non partisan journalist but an 'envelope induced news
monger' who was thereafter rewarded by being recruited by Gov Okowa with his
first, appointment as Chief Press Secretary and much later Commissioner for
information; all appointments based on clannish, filial considerations!
F) The political 'court jestering - quackery and
challatanism' of our kindergarten
political nyophyte - Mr. misinformation exponent - Aniagwu - equally
reared its ugly head when he failed to factor historic records in the area of
the electoral capacity of his principal,
Gov. Okowa in 2011, when he ran for Senate, compared to that of Sen
Peter Nwaoboshi in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Well the statistics are there with
INEC for all to see. The claim by
Aniagwu of Okowa's political superiority is at best fraudulent. SPON bested his records in 2015 and 2019,
meaning Delta North - ANIOMA - electorates have implicit confidence in SPON
compared to Governor Okowa, obviously suffering from the dictum - Power
corrupts and absolute Power corrupts absolutely! The claim of SPON been a
beneficiary of Governor Okowa's political 'craftsmanship and scholarship' is
not supported by the very low score the Aniagwu scholarship giver?- secured in
2011 Senatorial contest compared to the humongous votes ANIOMA voters gave SPON
in 2015 and 2019.
G) Again, no dispassionate, impartial Political observer
will dare compare Governor Okowa's near insignificant stewardship at the 7th
Senate (2011-2015) with that of SPON's 8th and ongoing 9th senate stewardship.
For a start, Gov Okowa operated under a PDP dominated
Senate. He could only make it as a
Deputy Chairman of the health Committee,
before he was elevated to the Chairmanship position due to the
unfortunate death of the then committee
chairman. In the case of SPON, in 2015, he displayed his uncanny 'political
craftsmanship' as a political strategist par excellence with others to elect Dr
Saraki as the Senate President, becoming the Chairman of the strategic Niger
Delta Committee. This feat strengthened the PDP in National Politics as
attested then by all. This is a true definition of Political Craftsmanship at
the National level displayed by SPON. The avalanche of developmental projects
distributed all over Delta North and beyond through SPON's influence as
chairman Niger Delta committee are there for all to see. Governor Okowa's tenure at the Senate does not
boast of these fine records, there was no 'superior developmental
craftsmanship' displayed by the fake scholarship giver?- to his people of Delta
North Senatorial District between 2011
and 2015.
H) SPON's Senate records in terms of bills passed bested
that of Sen. Okowa judging from his below par output.
Take for instance the ongoing issue germane to the heart of
NDOKWA People of Delta North. Where Governor Okowa failed lamentably to
influence a higher institution for the Good People of NDOKWA Nation, SPON has
stepped in, and sent in a bill at the Senate for the establishment of a Federal
University of Science and Technology at Aboh. This bill has successfully gone
through first, second reading, and public hearing, awaiting Senate concurrence
before proceeding to the House of Representatives. In spite of the 'booby
traps' put on its way from our 'jealous detractors', God willing, the Ndokwa
People will get their University Project approved.
I) Apart from the historic NDDC amendment bill sponsored by
SPON, and others, he also demonstrated good representation for his people in
the recent PIB bill at the Senate. It is
on record that SPON opposed the
cutting down of compensation
from 5% to 3% and was in the lobby
team setup to lobby our northern brothers
by the Southern Senators
led by the Barr. Omo Agege, the Deputy Senate President, DSP. It is on
record, also, that SPON has condemned
the unfortunate 'herdsman menace' several times, even encouraging his people within his
community, local government and beyond
to unite towards finding solutions,
unfortunately, because our
political neophyte does not follow political events accurately, he will
sheepishly and mischievously give out fallacious fake news in this regard -
What a shame!
J) Finally, our
kindergarten political neophyte, Mr.
Charles Aniagwu should stop jestering and shooting above his 'amateurish
partisan political' level, all in a bid to satisfy his pay master with
laughable, fallacious concocted tales by moonlight diatribes about Governor
Okowa's so called 'Political scholarship and craftsmanship' since they do not exist
in the manner he mischievously stated them nor are they supported by historic
facts, as has been shown here.
