The Ogun State Police Command has asked the Zazu crooner, Habeeb Okikiola popularly known as Portable to report at the nearest police station over an alleged assault on a young man or risk being arrested.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi said the command is in possession of a video circulating on the social media where the popular hiphop star was seen organising some youths to beat up a young man and inflicted bodily injury on him.
He described the action which was said to have taken place in the state two days ago as barbaric and could send a wrong signal to the youths on violent behaviour.
Portable has thus been advised to report himself at the nearest police station failure of which his arrest will be ordered
Reclaim Delta Coalition: Atiku/Okowa A Ticket Made In Hell
If it was not already clear that Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, have absolutely nothing to offer this country, it has certainly become incontestable by his picking Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, as running mate.
Okowa stabbed Ndigbo in the back, betrayed Peter Obi and pulled the rug from under Nyesom Wike’s feet.
It is this traitor that Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, as if to similarly prove himself a traitor, has now picked as running mate in a race they are both clearly destined to run to absolutely nowhere.
Atiku claims he is the messiah destined to save Nigeria but his preferred partner is the very worst state governor in today’s Nigeria.
Within less than half a year, Okowa has borrowed over 300 billion naira in the name of the richest state per capita in Nigeria.
Within under six months, Okowa, in cahoots with the rubber-stamp Delta State House of Assembly, led by his Man Friday of a barely educated governorship candidate, has saddled Deltans with such a humongous debt overhang that the richest state in Nigeria as per oil revenue has now also become the most indebted state in the entire country!
Atiku claims that he wants to unite Nigerians, end nepotism, kill sectionalism and put a stop to divisions amongst Nigerians.
Yet, his perfect partner in his quest to end division in our country is the most divisive and sectionalist governor in the entire country!
Okowa claimed he was working towards Anioma Agenda when he wanted to be Governor but the only place he developed in Delta North was his village, Owa-Alero.
If a man, while being state governor and chief executive, could not develop his senatorial district, is it if he becomes Vice President and a mere spare tyre requiring a president’s approval before making any move, that he should be expected to benefit his supposed constituency?
The only persons Okowa has empowered throughout his governorship are his fellow village people from Owa-Alero and environs.
You cannot be more tribalistic, nepotistic and sectionalist than Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa.
His brothers and sisters execute all the contracts in Delta State.
His younger brother is in charge of sports in the state.
His daughter is a Special Assistant with a budget that is not available to any commissioner and would make any Secretary to the State Government green with envy.
The same daughter was returned unopposed as a candidate for the Delta State House of Assembly in a disgusting process in which Governor Okowa frustrated Governor Ibori’s daughter and completely humiliated Governor Uduaghan’s daughter.
If anybody thinks President Muhammadu Buhari has been sectionalist, they should just wait for someone like Okowa and see sectionalism, nepotism and favouritism unleashed as full-blown pandemics in this country!
The Atiku/Okowa ticket is a tasteless joke taken way too far.
It does not just leave a sour taste in the mouth or even merely make one sick to the stomach; it brings up torrents of vomit gushing out of the mouths of those who really know the two worthless articles that make up the unmarketable presidential ticket of the PDP.
If there were still any illusions that Atiku might have something to offer this country, the serial failure, himself, has generously dispelled them by picking this monumental mistake of a “one chance Governor” as running mate.
At least Deltans now know where all the gargantuan loans Okowa and Sheriff Oborevwori, or, is it Francis Oborevwori, have been hanging on their necks with heartless recklessness, have been going to.
Okowa collected a loan of 150 billion naira in the name of Delta State and used the money to buy a presidential ticket for Atiku and a vice presidential ticket for himself.
If Deltans want to know why their pensioners have not been paid and are dying, standing on the que, while waiting for their entitlements; if Deltans want to know why each and every road constructed by the Okowa administration fails miserably within just three months of commissioning; and, if Deltans want to know why their state remains an embarrassment and an eyesore even though it is the richest amongst all the states of the country by 13 percent derivation, all they need to do is search for their money in the bulge of Atiku’s greedy pockets.
If Nigerians are still wondering where all the patently illegal and atrociously irregular loans Okowa and Oborevwori have been taking went to, they should ask Atiku Abubarkar how he was able to outspend everyone else, including governors of oil rich states during PDP’s presidential primary.
It is simply most wicked that a Niger Deltan governor would borrow huge sums of money in the name of the poverty stricken people of his state, only to then divert the money to purchasing a presidential ticket that is supposed to come to Southern Nigeria for a desperado from Adamawa and then stupidly settle for a vice presidential slot having stabbed his fellow Southern governors in the back.
Atiku is clearly so desperate to be President that he would sell even his Cameroonian father and mother if he had the chance.
Who would have believed he would so heartlessly stab James Ibori, his longtime friend, in the back?
Yet for money, someone who wants us to vote him as Nigeria’s President would team up with Okowa, of all people, to further humiliate his longstanding comrade in politics, James Ibori!
Who would have believed that Atiku would deny Nyesom Wike the vice presidential slot as compensation for his loss at the primary and in order to heal the wounds brought about by putrid optics of a perceived gang-up by the North against the South during the primary and a resulting North/South divide still rocking the PDP?
Atiku is clearly not presidential material; he is just another cash and carry clown who wants to be President, forgetting that Nigeria has left him and his likes behind.
Atiku/Okowa is a ticket made from betrayal.
Atiku/Okowa is a ticket made from treachery.
Atiku/Okowa is a ticket made from bribery and corruption.
It is a combination made in Hell and it can only take Nigeria further down the abyss.
It is clear that God is determined to punish the PDP for its atrocities in sixteen wasted years in power.
Atiku stole the turn of the South and Okowa was his willing accomplice and financier all along.
Indeed, with an Atiku, it was already going to be quite difficult for the party to win the ever elusive Presidency.
With an Okowa added to the mix, it has become an absolute impossibility.
In short, with a presidential ticket printed in Hell, the PDP now looks more like a secret society than a political party.
Atiku has made many mistakes throughout his mistake-filled political career.
Picking Okowa as running mate is the biggest mistake of all.
If anyone was still confused about the star Atiku brought with himself when he came to this world, then it should be crystal clear to all by now that becoming President is most certainly not his destiny at all!
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa,brand new Vice presidential candidate of the PDP may have jolted many with his punch line “I am an Igbo man”
Facing the nation live, Okowa a man known for his taciturnity went
point blank to declare his “Igboness”,wide eyed,unapologetically.
It took ARISE TV, a funky electronic medium,with chatty youthful presenters to break the news.
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Quite symbolic for those perceptive enough to read between the lines.
ARISE TV is powered by Nduka,Obaigbena.A Deltan from Okowa’s hood. The interview- unmistakable exclusive. Okowa wanted to be exact, deliberate and quotable.No ambivalence.No ambiguity.He owned it up,clear and clean!
Two strands are in Okowa’s revelation.
One,it is a soothing balm for those who have been singing ,even to the decibel of coarse rhetorics that the name “Ifeanyi” is Igbo by tag and identity, no matter the location.
A vivid vindication of the shrill cry of Delta Ibos for understanding, caught in the web of identity crisis.They clamour for integration among hesitant South East Igbos while craving sovereign survival as distinct settlers of independent Anioma world.A complex scenario dramatized by Kenyan folklorist Jerald Angira in his post colonial treatise titled “A Child of no World”
Two, Okowa’s telling epiphany will turn heads here and there. For the ones who had profiled the 4th elected governor of Delta,an Igbo man, Okowa’s disclosure has given them closure for their somewhat tribal or xenophobic suspicion. Now ,they can pine in malevolent Euraka.It is their point so free!
Far from varied sentiments, there is nobler tone to Okowa’s truth.The redeeming rhythm hypes beautifully, the urgency and necessity of one Nigeria, tolerance for peace,inclusiveness for progress and forgiveness for healing under the hubris of a divided and rudderless era.
Call Okowa uncomplimentary names under free speech, the man who spoke on Television did not just coo softly by nature, like the twittering Turtle Dove. He spoke like the Vice President Nigeria compellingly needs in a bleeding land of fear and hopelessness. He was humble in body language, pacifying in eloquence and remorseful in imperfections.
He answered the disapproval of E.K.Clark,some Southern and Middle Belt leaders against his Vice Presidential ticket, not with wanton selfish insolence but appealing respectful accommodation to Elder’s rage.That is not the trait of a traitor. Prodigal sons do not genuflect or curry the understanding of their fathers.Okowa,a mortal man has his faults, yet he is anything but rebellious.
Fair that Delta North Traditional Rulers and Ohaneze Ndigbo had reportedly came up with pro Okowa statements
supporting his position amid circumstances.
How plausible could one governor stand against the power of a party to make its ticket an open option? With the dogmatic climate of the North where monolithic religion and ethnicity had radicalized a people to unquestionable bandwagon in voting, can a Southern ticket holder win the presidency 2023? With the disunity and divisive voices among the three geo political zones in the South, how far can a home grown candidate go?
How come South East,touted as preferred destination for Nigeria’s next leadership made abysmal outing in the primaries of the two dominant political parties? Who and what pushed Igbo delegates from the South East to give zero votes to their brothers at the last presidential primaries?
Soon or late ,the day is coming .A Southern president would emerge. Okowa is not an obstacle but precursor. In key quarters ,the earnest expectation is that he wins along with Atiku Abubakar come 2023.
Atiku/Okowa presidency could be the elixir for future southern President of Nigeria.
Atiku is from North East with no history of Presidential seat since Nigeria’s independence,
whether under civilian or military. Okowa shares affinity with marginalized South East and also aligned with Southern Nigeria, brooding to rule again.
The time appears not in it’s apogee now with current realities. But full moon would birth inexorably tomorrow in the south.Just time! The delay is certainly not Okowa”s duplicity.
Okowa!
This Igbo man has good results in school and service. He will rescue Nigeria.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council congratulates His Excellency the Governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa on the occasion of his unveiling by His Excellency the former Vice President of Nigeria and PDP Presidential Flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as his running mate for 2023 Presidential election.
Of course, we expected such an outcome while the permutations on who becomes the running mate to Atiku Abubakar were on-going.
This is because, it was a known fact that Okowa has not only contributed immensely to his party the PDP, but has remained a Pan Nigerian by his body languages and actions whenever he is disposed to national assignments.
These indomitable qualities of this grassroots people’s delight of a man was brought to the fore when he presided over one or two National Conventions of his party and set the record of a return of peace and focused leadership in the party.
This is not to begin to give account of his meteoric rise in politics from the very lowest cadre of being the Secretary to the Local Government, the Local Government Chairman, three times Commissioner, Secretary to the Government of Delta State, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and then two terms Governor of Delta State. What can be more than that? There is no record of any political growth so enticing as this.
We also use this medium to praise the courage of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the PDP for not being swayed by the distractions of pundits, but having the will power to stay focused on what is good for the party and the Nigerian people.
We as a Union, having worked cordially with Senator Okowa over the years, have the belief that he will perform optimally as a Vice President, having proven his mettle in both Executive and Legislative experiences.
Nigeria is currently passing a phase with enormous challenges that require men and women of goodwill, impeccable track records, capacity and capability to take the country out of its present quagmire to a state of economic boom and productivity.
We hereby call on Nigerians irrespective of political, religious, ethnic or social background to critically x-ray the political parties and their candidates to determine those who have the qualities that are needed for the desired change. It is no longer time for party politics but a time for critical examination of policies, programmes that will have direct bearing on resolving Nigeria’s teething problems, gross under-development and maladministration of the past.
It is our desire to witness a high wired electoral contest in 2023, devoid of rigging and violence, but only anchored on brilliance and credibility of contestants. Only by this process are we expected to have a free, fair and transparent 2023 elections; and by extension produce those with the capacity to take Nigeria out of the woods.
A strong advocate for good governance and social justice, Dr. Peretengboro Klintin Bibaikefie has expressed his disappointment over what he termed a recurrence of violence against students by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC).This is coming on the heels of the unwarranted firing of live shots into the air and teargas at students whose only crime was to peacefully protest the extended delay in the disbursement of the 2019 DESOPADEC Bursery.
In his words; “We cannot continue to pay lip services to our love for education when government and her institutions at all levels only responds to education related matters as a last resort.
“One of us was short at and the Itsekiri Students’ President was axed in the head back in 2008, when we embarked on a similar protest over the delay to roll out the maiden version of the DESOPADEC Foreign Scholarship and Bursary Payment.
“We were forced to match to the governor office annex at Edjeba, to call for the desolation of the commission’s board, before the then Chairman, Chief Wellington Okrika budged, after Governor Uduaghan called him and his board to order.
“It is therefore very sad to hear that the same barbarism is still being perpetrated in this age and time.
“The leadership of the board must as a matter of urgency, rise to their responsibilities, apologize to the students for the delayed disbursement of the bursary and rash treatment netted out on them, pay all outstanding bursary and sundry payments, investigate who gave the order for the police to shoot and who was the policeman involved, and take necessary disciplinary actions.
As at today, a public statement on whether or not the commission is owing any such bursaries exists and what transpired on June 15, 2022 at their premises, is still being expected from the commission.
Rt Hon Funkekeme Solomon the Senior Political Adviser, SPOLAD, to Governor Okowa of Delta State has complimented his boss man and principal Senator Dr Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa the Governor of Delta State on his emergence as running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP)
Rt Hon Funkekeme Solomon in Asaba said it was not a surprise that Governor Okowa emerged Atiku’s choice given the contributions Okowa had made to the growth of PDP, good governance and democracy in the country
The SPOLADv noted that Atiku might not have forgotten the role Okowa played in the 2018 presidential primaries of the PDP in Port Harcourt, where Atiku emerged as the party’s flag bearer for the 2019 election, adding that the Governor was also instrumental in his emergence as presidential candidate in this year’s primaries of the party in Abuja last month.
Rt Hon Funkekeme Solomon said Governor Okowa had remained a loyal and committed party man, a great mobilizer and a worthy ambassador of the PDP, describing his emergence as the vice presidential candidate, a great honour to Delta state.
He acknowledged the fact that the task ahead of the party in prosecuting the electioneering campaign for the 2023 election was enormous, but expressed optimism that with Okowa PDP would have a seamless issue based campaign and go into the election well prepared to reclaim power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the center and in more states of the federation.
The SPOLAD stated that the development strides of Governor Okowa, which helped to make the PDP a party to beat in the South South region, would surely be replicated at the federal level when the party must have won the 2023 elections, assuring that with Atiku and Okowa, Nigerians should expect a trajectory of governance at its best.
Rt. Hon Solomon, who also congratulated Deltans, particularly members of the PDP on the honour, as he urged them to individually and collectively support the Governor and the party to make the rescue mission already on course possible.
The Member Representing Warri Federal Federal Constituency at the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Chief Dr. Thomas Ereyitomi JP says the confirmation of Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as the Vice Presidential Candidate to the 2023 Peoples Democratic Party Presidential standard flag bearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as well merited and well deserved.
Chief Ereyitomi who is also the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Warri Federal Constituency said he’s optimistic of PDP victory in the 2023 presidential poll, adding that with the tremendous distinguished performance of PDP governed States Nigerians are ready to vote PDP for progress, unity, peace and all-round development of the the country.
While hailing Alhaji Atiku and PDP for picking Dr. Okowa to Vice him, the Warri federal constituency PDP candidate solicited for more support for Atiku/Okowa team in the forth coming 2023 general election, Chief Ereyitomi reiterated the resolve for all to rally round the PDP candidates for success as well as in depth campaign by all PDP faithful across all homes in the 36 states including FCT.
The Warri Federal lawmaker is however excited over the feat recorded by Okowa making him the first person to be nominated for the position of vice president since creation of Delta state in the PDP, Dr. Ereyitomi congratulated Dr. Okowa and Deltans, he appealed for massive united campaign for PDP when the time is come for it.
Former governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olorogun David Edevbie has approached a Federal High Court, FHC, Abuja, over issues relating to governorship party primary in Delta State.
He filed a case and asked Court to grant injunctions against declared winner of the Guber primary and Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, and that he (Edevbie) should be substituted to replace Rt Hon Oborevwori.
According to Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, Esq, Executive Assistant to Governor Okowa, said the Court refused the application and asked that Hon Oborevwori and the other parties; PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should be put on notice to thrash out the application on Tuesday, 22nd June, 2022.
This suit is similar to other suits brought by various persons seeking judicial short-cut to no avail.
The people have spoken and it is clear that Rt Hon Sheriff Francis Oborevwori, is their choice.
Operators of the Nigeria banking sectors have ventured into solar as alternative source of energy to be used in running their operations and reduce running cost of the various banks investing into renewal energy.
This much was gathered by AREA NEWS NIGERIA Wednesday June, 15, 2022 in Abuja Nigeria’s Federal Capital where foreign Ministry of Holland was quoted supporting banks and other related services willing to key into the renewable project.
Some the Nigerian Banks already investing in the solar energy sector are: Access Bank, GTCO, FCMB, Polarise Bank, United Bank For Africa, UBA, Wema Bank, Sterling Bank, Zenith Bank, Union Bank and Stanbic IBTC Back.
“Assured the Board of their Commitment To Promote The Tourism Potentials Of the State.
Members of the fast Growing Aba Based Movie Production Team led by Mr Francis Ifeankandu visited the Abia State Tourism Board on Tuesday June 14 to reinstate their undivided Commitment to the goal of the Board in promoting the rich Cultural Heritage and Tourism Potentials of the state.
The Leader of the Delegations, Me Francis thanked the General Manager Abia State Tourism Board, Ms Atuloma Onyekachi for her pace setting and exemplary services and bringing back life to the Tourism Board that through the activities of the Board,The world is seeing the Tourism Potentials of the state which will attract Tourist to the sites and create business opportunities for the Host communities of the sites.
They also used the opportunity to officially brief the Board of their project tagged THE CHRONICLES OF EMYIMBA which is a well packaged Documentary of the Possibilities, Potentials and Transformation of Aba over the years and the positive impact of the good works of the Dr OKEZIE Ikpeazu infrastructural development in Aba.
Furthermore, They also promised to partner with the Board in selling Abia to the world .
The General Manager Abia State Tourism Board in her response thanked the Team for finding time to visit and for sharing in the dream of the Board that the synergy will bring positive results and project the state in good light.She also used the opportunity to inform the Aba Film Project Team of the World Tourism Day coming up in September and the plan of her Agency to make it a very unique ones in line with her Agency’s Goals.
The Aba Film Project Team also in appreciation Used the opportunity to Honor Ms Atuloma in recognition to her efforts in the Tourism Industry in the State.Some members of the Delegations include; Hon Charles Ubani,Joy Chinwe Jeffrey,Cheta Achiever.
Reclaim Delta Coalition: Atiku/Okowa A Ticket Made In Hell
