Elder Godsay Peter Orubebe has slammed Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state for his inciting statement against former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, the ex-minister of Niger Delta Affairs berated Governor Oshiomhole who he described as a villa sycophant who is willing to switch allegiance to whoever is in power, Vanguard reports...
He said: “Oshiomhole is an ingrate and a popular villa sycophant who is quick to switch allegiance to whomever is in power.
“Human memory is short, emphasising that ‘it’s unfortunate that Oshiomhole who should talk like a governor is today, biting the fingers (Jonathan) that fed him and seems to have forgotten in a hurry that he once cried around the former president for assistance and recognition.”
Orubebe went on to advise incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of the likes of Oshiomhole who according to him, will clog him (Buhari) with loud cheers all in a bid to have access to dip hands into the nation’s cake.
Governor Oshiomhole had earlier blamed Goodluck Jonathan for Edo state misery.
According to him, his government was forced to secure a loan of $75million from the World Bank because of former president, Goodluck Jonathan’s looting.
These remarks also didn’t go down well with Akinwumi Adesina, the former minister of agriculture and rural development to the immediate past president, who has also joined hands with Orubebe to lambast the Edo state governor.
*Contrary to the perception of Orubebe on Oshiomhole as 'villa sycophant', it can be recalled that there was a political feud between the former president and Governor Oshiomhole shortly after the ecological funds saga. The governor had accused the former president of partiality and purported excluding Edo State from benefiting from the federal government ecological funds whereas the same fate that warranted other states such as Delta, Bayelsa, Jigawa etc, to receive the funds also befell his state of Edo. Thus even before some 15 months to the 2015 general elections, they were not best of friends as they used to be. Even the electioneering campaign hypes personally executed by Oshiomhole said it all.
*Contrary to the perception of Orubebe on Oshiomhole as 'villa sycophant', it can be recalled that there was a political feud between the former president and Governor Oshiomhole shortly after the ecological funds saga. The governor had accused the former president of partiality and purported excluding Edo State from benefiting from the federal government ecological funds whereas the same fate that warranted other states such as Delta, Bayelsa, Jigawa etc, to receive the funds also befell his state of Edo. Thus even before some 15 months to the 2015 general elections, they were not best of friends as they used to be. Even the electioneering campaign hypes personally executed by Oshiomhole said it all.
Orubebe popularity soared on March 31, during the collation of results of the presidential election at the international conference centre, where he led some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to disrupt the exercise as he accused Jega of being biased.
He took a microphone from an official of the INEC to accuse Jega of taking sides with the All Progressives Congress, requesting that Jega should stop further announcement of the results. Orubebe said the former INEC boss was attending to the complaints brought forward by APC at the expense of the PDP.
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