Okowa And Orubebe’s Battle For Party Control Gets Messier

July 31, 2019 Tonnison 140 Views Okowa And Orubebe's Battle For Party Control Gets Messier

The war of words between the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Peter Orubebe, and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has deteriorated.

Orubebe had challenged the governor to give full account and details of how he spent N1.15 trillion the state received from the Federal Government as well as from its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the last 50 months.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart, who demanded that Okowa should prove his accountability and judicious application of the said fund with particular reference to each ethnic community in the state, has engaged the services of some consultants to value the works Okowa has done in the state within the period under review.

But Okowa, while reacting to the statement on Tuesday during the swearing-in of 17 commissioners, urged political leaders to apply decorum in their utterances to avoid heating up the polity, just as he urged him to tell Deltans what he used his position as minister to do for the people of Burutu.

The governor, who said the prominent politician used the media to castigate his administration for not granting his (the politician’s) request to nominate a commissioner, stated that political leaders were expected to “show some level of decorum in whatever they say or do because I am not the kind of man that wants to be dragged into arguments with our leaders.

“This is because I have a lot of respect for them but when some leaders go off course sometimes, it is important to put things in the right perspective.

“It is truly unfortunate that one of our leaders has been insulting the office of the governor on the pages of newspapers and on social media; it is very unfortunate that this type of situation took place and I wish that the criticism was based on real facts.

“But I do not think that the criticism was a mistake on my part because the fact that a leader makes a request to appoint a commissioner and it is turned down is not enough for such a leader to go to the newspaper or social media to criticize the government of Delta state.”

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