2023: The lies and truth about the 'quarrel' between Ibori and Okowa | TheCable

January 24, 2022 6:12 PMQuestion: Is His Excellency Governor Ifeanyi Okowa fighting James Onanefe Ibori over anything, including who becomes the state’s chief executive on May 29, 2023?

So, as Jonathan was president, anyone who wanted to advance politically should have distanced himself from Ibori? Right? Wrong! Okowa showed his loyalty to Ibori in the most defiant way possible; he employed Ibori’s daughter as an aide, not in his constituency office in Delta north senatorial district but in the senate. Today, that daughter of Ibori is a member of the house of assembly, Asaba; she contested and won the electoral battle while her father was in a London jail.

Many on the other side of the Delta political fence must have had their hopes raised that the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party was about to crash. The All Progressives Congress spent some N250 million to prosecute just a house of assembly by-election for a seat around Warri town; Warri Constituency 1 of the Delta state house of assembly and lost.

I know that there is this urban legend which has been accepted in Nigeria as the gospel truth; that Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos state, handed out the victory in the 2015 presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari, APC’s standard bearer. An urban legend remains exactly what it is, no matter how widely accepted it is. A lie is a lie is a lie.

Jonathan was so taken in by the power of his office that his ears listened to the advice that only came from those who had attempted to hijack the PDP but failed; people such as Nuhu Ribadu and Nasir el-Rufai. Thus, he sacked Farida Waziri from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s chairman’s office and appointed Ribadu’s sidekick instead. That effectively ended a much-needed look into the quality of Ribadu’s stewardship.

Drunk with power, Jonathan went ahead with his quest. Of course, when the election came, he failed woefully. He had been misled into wounding the PDP even more than Obasanjo wounded it. The PDP which people like Alex Ekwueme, Solomon Lar, Abubakar Rimi and a few others designed to cure Nigeria of the disease of regional parties and regional alliances that gives rise to unnecessary regional dogfights had been mismanaged by Obasanjo and Jonathan.

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