Governor Adams Oshiomhole has described Mr. Godsday Orubebe, Deputy Director-General of the 2015 Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organization as an elevated thug and a political jobber, who is out to make noise as means of getting his next meal ticket.
In a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter Okhiria, the Governor in reaction to Orubebe’s fresh attack on him said “reading Godsday Orubebe’s infantile outburst saying the Comrade Governor of Edo State is a “garage boy” (sic) easily exposes the boondocks orientation and lowly mind of someone who almost plunged the country into political anarchy in the last general elections.
It easily underscores one of the reasons why the Jonathan administration failed abysmally to understand the nexus between promise and performance, between problems and solutions, and above all between prosperity and poverty.
“Orubebe is no more than a common tout and political thug, too illiterate to know the difference between a “garage” and a “motor park, “recruited by his paymasters as Deputy Director-General of the 2015 Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organization, and agent provocateur to truncate the last election.
“But for the maturity and sound leadership orientation of Professor Atahiru Jega, Nigeria would still have been reeking in utter anarchy and political protestations.
“With such indecorous conduct coming from a man who ostensibly is an “Elder’ of a Church, calls to question the whole essence of his character, personality, upbringing and spirituality.
“That singular conduct of his at the elections is a living symphony of his egregious blunder, absurdities, incongruities and oddities, all of which are attributes of touts always desirous to make their voices heard.
“It is due to his amnesia that he forgot to understand that as a Nigerian and Governor of a State, Comrade Oshiomhole has statutory right to go in and out of the Presidential Villa to discuss issues that affect Edo State.
“Former President Goodluck Jonathan was President of Nigeria and not President of his party, the PDP.
“He was under obligation to attend to all parties and persons irrespective of their political affiliation.
“The real problem of former President Jonathan was having people like Orubebe who pigeon-holed him as president of the Ijaw Nation and prevented him from appreciating the enormity of the challenges facing the Nigerian nation.
“To further compound the challenges was the dénouement of his unruly and thuggish imputation during the elections, such tendentious character index that is now synonymous with this Niger-Deltan.
“Orubebe and his ilk turned the Presidency to a cabal, ran by ego-tripping political fat cats who blindfolded former President Jonathan from the real issues of governance.
“Desperate to continue that regime of plundering, sleaze and malfeasance, Orubebe was given the job of ensuring that the elections were stagnated by crook or hook.
“His roguish display at the venue of the announcement of results was to further actualize that notorious script; such a shameless role by a shameless father who was supposed to be a role model for good parenting.
“As former Minister of the Ministry of Niger Delta, he dreamt throughout his tenure without any discernible roadmap for the Niger-Delta region.
“We challenge him to name just a project he executed in Edo State as a product of his ministerial intervention during his tenure.
“He vandalized all the East-West roads, made them almost impassable as a caveat to get more budgetary allocation. He touts the East-West road as if that was the only reason why the Ministry of Niger Delta was created.
“As a Nigerian from the Niger-Delta geopolitical conclave, the likes of Orubebe are not only sad commentaries on the collective aspirations of the region, he represents the region’s black sheep who had opportunity to add value to the commonality of our existence but ended up adding insult to our collective injuries.
“A man like Orubebe should cover his face in utter shame for being such a huge disappointment for which the entire nation now derides the region for presenting a mere tout as one of our first eleven.
“Never again will the Niger Delta region be represented by characters like Orubebe who went to sleep while in office when others were busy working.
“The end result is that the region is utterly vandalized, raped and plundered without any discernible development. What a shame.
“He should mention the projects he attracted to the entire Niger Delta region during his tenure, or better still what he did in Burutu Local Government where he comes from.
“Despite the billions of naira budgeted for the Niger Delta Ministry, what has Orubebe got to show for it? The day of reckoning is surely here and he will account for every kobo spent.
“When the real story of the Jonathan Administration is written, Orubebe would rather be referred to as a Common Tout of the Federal Republic of Nigeria instead of being called a former Minister,” the statement concluded.
