BY GODWIN IJEDIOGOR
THE Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State has assured that Governor Sheriff Oborevwori would not be distracted by any assault on his person by those it called “ever pugnacious and petulant.”
In a press release by its Secretary, Mr.Dan Ossai, in reaction to an article, titled, ‘Oborevwori: How Not To Glorify A ‘One Chance’ Governor,’ written by Zik Gbemre, the PDP stated that this time, “the irascible fellow thinks he can harass the governor and the PDP in Delta State with his usual pseudo, deceptive and distorted analysis, which he concocted and spreading same in the belief that he would hoodwink the people into applauding his propaganda.”
The party said it was standing strong with Oborevwori and has refused to be distracted from the goal of delivering on the mission of advancing Delta State through the administration’s M.O.R.E. Agenda.
“Our resolve is to remain focused in seeing the Oborevwori administration deliver on its campaign promises to Deltans. Our resolve is also against the background that someone once told the story of how he surfed the Internet and found nothing substantial on the Facebook wall of Gbemre. Indeed, nothing to suggest that he is a person of worth was found.
“Is this the kind of person that the governor of a state and his administration would waste precious time to respond to? This is a man who cannot appreciate the fact that Nigeria is a democratic society where political parties field candidates for elective positions.
“He wrote: ‘It is a deliberate conspiracy to impose a mediocre governor over the far better contenders shoved aside to enthrone Oborevwori.’ We ask: Did Gbemre’s ‘far better contenders’ contest election primary or not?
“All his ‘far better contenders’ were subsequently and finally routed at the polls, as they were rejected by the people of Delta State in favour of Oborevwori.
“It’s clear that Gbemre is yet to get over the terrible defeat that his ‘far better contenders’ suffered at the hands of PDP and Oborevwori. He is still amazed and dazed.”
The party further stated: “Gbemre told a lie when he wrote about the governor being anonymous about Okuama. The man of mischief, who creates dreams by imagination will not tell his paymasters that Oborevwori called the leaders of Okuama and Okoloba communities, where they signed a treaty to maintain peace and order.
“Gbemre lacks the courage to bring this to the knowledge of his paymasters, the ones for whom he plays the goon.
“The tragedy that Gbemre represents is the fact that he wants Oborevwori to raise an army to go and challenge officers of the Nigerian Army who received the consent of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to carry out the operation in Okuama.
“Oborevwori can be the chief security officer of Delta State, but is he the Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces? Does Oborevwori, as governor, or even other governors in Nigeria for that matter, have control over the Police commands in their states?
“If the Commissioner of Police in Delta State could not enter Okuama, because the Army was carrying out operations in the community, does Gbemre think that Oborevwori is a fatalist like himself?
“To further underscore the false impression that he is trying to create is the ignorance he is feigning about the huge construction work to transform Warri and environs that the administration of Oborevwori is doing, having signed the N78billion contract, as a result of which Julius Berger’s caterpillars and other construction equipment are at work, even as we write this rejoinder.
“Oborevwori has, time without number, said that he is governor for all Deltans and he is walking his talk. All the projects and all his other doings are in the interest and for the benefit of Deltans and residents.
“Therefore, no amount of falsehood spiced with blackmail can derail or divert the attention, focus and determination the Delta State governor and his administration from delivering the MORE Agenda to Deltans.
“Let Gbemre stop living in a fool’s paradise, but get conversant with the all-time truth that Delta State is PDP and PDP is Delta State.”
