A recent claim by one of the hungry Anioma sons, claiming that a former Senator from the area was the architect of powershift that made it possible to produce Emmanuel Uduaghan and Ifeanyi Okowa, as Governors of Delta State through Equity Group and Anioma Congress, has been refuted by Anioma son and daughters of repute. They said the claim was a hoax.
They told ZN that the writer or claimant who is presently one of the unemployed house boys of the Senator, who wrote on behalf of the Senator, was only trying to relaunch the Senator who has a very bad image with the public in preparation for the 2027 Senatorial election.
The Anioma indigene, confirmed that there was no iota of truth in what the writer was saying. Moreover the writer who is recent returnee to Delta State as at the time of event happening was residing in the Northern part of Nigeria wasting his youthfulness. With the fake information given in the write up, it was obviously clear that the writer was fed with the said information by the Senator in order to project and put back himself to public acceptance after representing Delta North badly, while holding public office.
Stating further, they said it was a known fact that the Senator was a major factor that militates against the progress of Delta North and was a main block used then by Delta Central to truncate powershift to Delta North.
The power shift to Delta North was made possible because of Onu Anioma Group that came up then for the liberation of Anioma Nation from the hands of the Urhobos under the then James Ibori’s administration.
Even at that, according to Delta Northerners, the Senator was the one being used by James lbori, to hunt members of the Onu Anioma Group and clamped them in police stations round the State. People like Fred Ajudua, who was the major financier of the group can testify. They said the Senator was like Saul in the Holy Bible unflinching terror on the Aniomas.
Equity Group was not truly formed for power shift, but for selfish interest.That was why it fizzled out quickly. What happened was that a group of person who were in the system then that were losing favour with the governor came together to form the group in order to relaunch themselves into the system.
Anioma Congress, was never the brain child of the Senator and he never new when it was formed. People like the former Clerk of the Delta State House of Assembly, Dan Okenyi and others involved can testify.
Comparing former President of Nigeria, Late Nnamdi Azikiwe and the former Premier of Western Nigeria, Obafemi Awolowo, with the Senator was degrading and insulting to their persons. Those eminent Nigerians were not involved in any known criminality like the Senator, revealed the sons and daughters of Anioma Nation.
Speaking further they stated that the greedy Senator who worked for the embattled Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the immediate past Senate President, Ahmed Lawan during the Presidential Primary of the APC against President Ahmed Tinubu, must not be allowed to hold any public post.
More on the Senator, the Delta Northerners, said he should hide his face in shame because he committed a lot of atrocities while in office, having used his positions to short change the people of Delta North.
For instance as a party chairman before joining another party and Senator, he held all the council chairmen that existed in his local government to ransome except the one that presently left office. He made sure that all the federal allocations of the council were shared in his bedroom under his dictate. He decided who to hold council office or who not to hold.
Secondly, as a chairman of a lucrative commission, he did all the contracts that came to his constituent. Most annoying was that non of the contracts that were executed were of quality jobs. Especially in his home town where the roads constructed and street lights installed did not last more than three months. The roads were so poorly executed that what were supposed to be joyous to his people became sorrowful because the roads became tools to channel flood into the people’s compounds and houses.
Speaking further the Delta North people told ZN, that through out his office tenure he cannot mention of any person that he empowered positively.
