Article written By: Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, M.NIIA
In my usual simple but infectious style and in plane non-brain wrecking grammatical construction, I am going to make you laugh a little. I am also going to try so hard to talk about salient issues revolving round the demise of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State.
More importantly, I will do the needful to tell the naked truth so that the coast will be clear to some elementary extent in connection with the political TSUNAMI that is about to take place in Delta State, any moment from now.
I have read materials about the former Chief of Staff of Delta State, Chief Paulinus Akpeki now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) including his recent interview published in the Saturday Vanguard on October 10, 2015. In the same token, I perused the interview granted to Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Edwin Uzor. I am going to holistically analyze the two of them.
Chief Edwin Uzor is no match of Chief Akpeki in the game of politics. This is so because he lacked the sufficient grasp of diplomacy to effectively manage political crisis such as the present development that has brought the PDP to her kneels. Uzor spoke as “a political student “ while Chief Akpeki demonstrated superlative skills as a grandmaster of the game of politics in his Vanguard interview.
Uzor became Chairman of the Delta PDP through the back door, a project pioneered by the former PDP State Chairman, Chief (Barrister) Peter Nwaboshi now a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Chief Uzor was at that time the State Auditor of the party and a political student of Chief Nwaboshi.
Uzor is not known to be a significant voice in Delta PDP before his kangaroo appointment. However, he is rugged, crude and very forceful in terms of radical politics that had to do with intimidation of perceived enemies. Uzor is not polished, full of anger, rage and ready to do anything unpleasant to become relevant in political scheme of things. So, Uzor is not the fellow that ought to be the State Chairman of the party in the first place.
When Nwaboshi resigned to contest for Delta North Senatorial seat, the inner temple members of the PDP in the state held a closed door meeting where Nwaboshi insisted that Uzor must be the one to succeed him as Chairman. This decision violated Section 45 subsections 1 to 4 of the PDP constitution which states inter alia: “When a Chairman resigns, he hands over to the Deputy and the Deputy will call a meeting and then they will elect a new person from the zone.” This was not done till date.
For fear of victimization nobody in the party could raise his or her head high to question the imposition of Uzor on the party. But Chief E.K Clark did and he was pacified with the position of Burutu Local Government Chairmanship for his son.
For real, Uzor does not have any worthwhile political pedigree to ascend to the enviable position of party Chairman but that is now history. Therefore, when you read his interview on page 53 of Saturday Vanguard, you see a man that lacked sense of organization, a man so confused and uncoordinated in his choice of words needed to calm the nerves of other PDP members in the state warming up for mass decamping to the APC. His choice of words portrays him as a “Kindergarten student” in the school of partisan politics.
He needs to be schooled urgently otherwise his cracked brain will speed up the final burial ceremony of the PDP in Delta State. The APC is looking at three to four months for the total collapse of PDP in Delta but it seems that Uzor will kill the party within the next 30 days. I am trying to be generous here to the PDP.
The Question is where was Uzor when Akpeki, Ukubeyinje, Ijoma and the rest rose to become Commissioners and Chief of Staff in PDP government in Delta State? Of course, he was then a political kindergarten student under Chief Nwaboshi. So, how come a mere learner in the school of politics now suddenly had the radical boldness to carpet his political leaders and instructors? In fact, Uzor should be flogged and rusticated in the political market square.
He is merely enjoying his loyalty to Nwaboshi who up till date is Uzor’s political teacher and godfather. He is certainly not in the class of those he is pointing accusing fingers at. They are forever his political leaders and mentors (Akpeki, Ukubeinje, Akwara, Ijomah, et al).
On the other hand, Chief Akpeki is a grand-master of grassroots politics, a strategic mobilizer and a senior general in political warfare. His experience in the field of politics knows no bounds.
He was a political teacher to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Hon. Victor Ochei, Hon. Agas Festus and the rest of them. None of these gentlemen can look straight to Akpeki’s face without removing their traditional political beads from their neck to greet him. Okowa was in secondary school when Akpeki started his political career. Uzor did not know what politics was all about when Akpeki became a positive factor to reckon with in the game of politics.
I am pretty sure that past governors of Delta State will not speak ill of Chief Akpeki the way and manner Uzor did in his sponsored and misguided interview Saturday Vanguard. His choice of words revealed Uzor’s political inexperience. Her certainly knows little or nothing about the current political happenings in Delta State.
Of a truth, Uzor ought to be appointed as Chief Akpeki’s Personal Assistant in October 2014. How did he become PDP state Chairman when he is yet to serve Akpeki in a P.A capacity? Uzor must go back to learn practical partisan politics from grandmaster Akpeki.
CHIEF AKPEKI’S COMING MESSAIH: Chief Akpeki in his interview asserted that he is Delta’s John the Baptist whose job is to announce the coming of the political messiah. This is food for thought. Who is this Messiah? Could the Messiah be Chief James Ibori returning to Nigeria and joining the APC? Or is the Messiah the immediate past governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan? Who is Akpeki’s political Messiah?
I am of the opinion that Deltans should take Akpeki further on this issue. His body language and utterances tells me that there is a political plot that will change the APC structure as presently constituted. The question is when this messiah comes what will he do politically? Could the Messiah be Gov Okowa decamping to the APC at a later date, all in preparation for the coming Messiah? What is this Messiah thing all about politically?
I certainly do not know anything about this Messiah stuff but one thing is clear and that is that there shall be a political TSUNAMI of massive decamping from the PDP to the APC in the very near future; it is a matter of weeks and few months from now. PDP will become history in Delta State, Messiah or no Messiah.
Who knows, Chief Edwin Uzor may be one of the disciples of the Messiah when he arrives the APC.
Akpeki’s declaration is pretty deep and Delta politicians must be very careful from now forward in their political utterances, including Governor Okowa and his parrot media aides.
Yours sincerely pray to be alive when Akpeki’s political Messiah shows up. No apologies to Uzor for the rapid demise of PDP in Delta State. The signs are everywhere and APC will surely take over Delta State.
In my usual simple but infectious style and in plane non-brain wrecking grammatical construction, I am going to make you laugh a little. I am also going to try so hard to talk about salient issues revolving round the demise of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State.
More importantly, I will do the needful to tell the naked truth so that the coast will be clear to some elementary extent in connection with the political TSUNAMI that is about to take place in Delta State, any moment from now.
I have read materials about the former Chief of Staff of Delta State, Chief Paulinus Akpeki now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) including his recent interview published in the Saturday Vanguard on October 10, 2015. In the same token, I perused the interview granted to Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Edwin Uzor. I am going to holistically analyze the two of them.
Chief Edwin Uzor is no match of Chief Akpeki in the game of politics. This is so because he lacked the sufficient grasp of diplomacy to effectively manage political crisis such as the present development that has brought the PDP to her kneels. Uzor spoke as “a political student “ while Chief Akpeki demonstrated superlative skills as a grandmaster of the game of politics in his Vanguard interview.
Uzor became Chairman of the Delta PDP through the back door, a project pioneered by the former PDP State Chairman, Chief (Barrister) Peter Nwaboshi now a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Chief Uzor was at that time the State Auditor of the party and a political student of Chief Nwaboshi.
Uzor is not known to be a significant voice in Delta PDP before his kangaroo appointment. However, he is rugged, crude and very forceful in terms of radical politics that had to do with intimidation of perceived enemies. Uzor is not polished, full of anger, rage and ready to do anything unpleasant to become relevant in political scheme of things. So, Uzor is not the fellow that ought to be the State Chairman of the party in the first place.
When Nwaboshi resigned to contest for Delta North Senatorial seat, the inner temple members of the PDP in the state held a closed door meeting where Nwaboshi insisted that Uzor must be the one to succeed him as Chairman. This decision violated Section 45 subsections 1 to 4 of the PDP constitution which states inter alia: “When a Chairman resigns, he hands over to the Deputy and the Deputy will call a meeting and then they will elect a new person from the zone.” This was not done till date.
For fear of victimization nobody in the party could raise his or her head high to question the imposition of Uzor on the party. But Chief E.K Clark did and he was pacified with the position of Burutu Local Government Chairmanship for his son.
For real, Uzor does not have any worthwhile political pedigree to ascend to the enviable position of party Chairman but that is now history. Therefore, when you read his interview on page 53 of Saturday Vanguard, you see a man that lacked sense of organization, a man so confused and uncoordinated in his choice of words needed to calm the nerves of other PDP members in the state warming up for mass decamping to the APC. His choice of words portrays him as a “Kindergarten student” in the school of partisan politics.
He needs to be schooled urgently otherwise his cracked brain will speed up the final burial ceremony of the PDP in Delta State. The APC is looking at three to four months for the total collapse of PDP in Delta but it seems that Uzor will kill the party within the next 30 days. I am trying to be generous here to the PDP.
The Question is where was Uzor when Akpeki, Ukubeyinje, Ijoma and the rest rose to become Commissioners and Chief of Staff in PDP government in Delta State? Of course, he was then a political kindergarten student under Chief Nwaboshi. So, how come a mere learner in the school of politics now suddenly had the radical boldness to carpet his political leaders and instructors? In fact, Uzor should be flogged and rusticated in the political market square.
He is merely enjoying his loyalty to Nwaboshi who up till date is Uzor’s political teacher and godfather. He is certainly not in the class of those he is pointing accusing fingers at. They are forever his political leaders and mentors (Akpeki, Ukubeinje, Akwara, Ijomah, et al).
On the other hand, Chief Akpeki is a grand-master of grassroots politics, a strategic mobilizer and a senior general in political warfare. His experience in the field of politics knows no bounds.
He was a political teacher to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Hon. Victor Ochei, Hon. Agas Festus and the rest of them. None of these gentlemen can look straight to Akpeki’s face without removing their traditional political beads from their neck to greet him. Okowa was in secondary school when Akpeki started his political career. Uzor did not know what politics was all about when Akpeki became a positive factor to reckon with in the game of politics.
I am pretty sure that past governors of Delta State will not speak ill of Chief Akpeki the way and manner Uzor did in his sponsored and misguided interview Saturday Vanguard. His choice of words revealed Uzor’s political inexperience. Her certainly knows little or nothing about the current political happenings in Delta State.
Of a truth, Uzor ought to be appointed as Chief Akpeki’s Personal Assistant in October 2014. How did he become PDP state Chairman when he is yet to serve Akpeki in a P.A capacity? Uzor must go back to learn practical partisan politics from grandmaster Akpeki.
CHIEF AKPEKI’S COMING MESSAIH: Chief Akpeki in his interview asserted that he is Delta’s John the Baptist whose job is to announce the coming of the political messiah. This is food for thought. Who is this Messiah? Could the Messiah be Chief James Ibori returning to Nigeria and joining the APC? Or is the Messiah the immediate past governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan? Who is Akpeki’s political Messiah?
I am of the opinion that Deltans should take Akpeki further on this issue. His body language and utterances tells me that there is a political plot that will change the APC structure as presently constituted. The question is when this messiah comes what will he do politically? Could the Messiah be Gov Okowa decamping to the APC at a later date, all in preparation for the coming Messiah? What is this Messiah thing all about politically?
I certainly do not know anything about this Messiah stuff but one thing is clear and that is that there shall be a political TSUNAMI of massive decamping from the PDP to the APC in the very near future; it is a matter of weeks and few months from now. PDP will become history in Delta State, Messiah or no Messiah.
Who knows, Chief Edwin Uzor may be one of the disciples of the Messiah when he arrives the APC.
Akpeki’s declaration is pretty deep and Delta politicians must be very careful from now forward in their political utterances, including Governor Okowa and his parrot media aides.
Yours sincerely pray to be alive when Akpeki’s political Messiah shows up. No apologies to Uzor for the rapid demise of PDP in Delta State. The signs are everywhere and APC will surely take over Delta State.
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