PDP congress was a total fraud – Gbagi

On March 26, 2012 · In News

1:12 pm

Email0 Emma Amaize
WARRI- FORMER Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, weekend, faulted the remarks of the Minister of Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe , that the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, congress in Delta State was successful, saying, it was a  total fraud.
Olorogun Gbagi who was reacting to media report that the minister warned him (Gbagi) over his scathing comments on the congress said, “I called the Minister today (Friday) and he denied warning me, saying he had no powers in law and in politics to warn me”.
Gbagi’s words, “I read with shock the comments credited to Elder Godsday Orubebe that the congress in Delta state is concluded and done with, I disagree in totality with him, the minister is my brother and we have lived together before now, but in this instance, I sharply disagree with him”.
“I maintain the position of the group of the former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark that the congress is a charade, I will remain an upright politician with no element of fraud and deceit. As it pertains to the Delta Central senatorial district, the position of the E.K Clark group is that there was no reconciliation and harmonization”, he asserted.
“Orubebe is  an Ijaw man from the Delta South senatorial district and cannot represent the interest of Urhobo people of Delta Senatorial district more than me in the E.K Clark group  and unless the Urhobo man takes his destiny into his hands, it is obvious that some people  want to enslave us in perpetuity”,  he added.
According to him, “While I maintain a relationship with Orubebe , it will be on the basis of mutual respect. I have called Orubebe and I can tell you that I have spoken to Chief Clark and our position that the congress is a charade and a shame has not changed”.
“Elder Orubebe is free to represent his ethnic group, but should not pick mercenaries among Urhobos , claiming that he has harmonized . The days and weeks ahead will show that Delta is at it again”, he asserted.
A source who preferred anonymity, however, told  Vanguard, “The problem this time around is not really between Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan group and the former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark faction; it is a bone of contention  among Clark loyalists”.

SOURCE: Vanguard Newspaper, 26  March 2012. http://www.vanguardngr.com/