{"id":10305,"date":"2016-07-23T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2016-07-23T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T21:55:49","slug":"gov-okowa-you-are-fast-losing-the-street-credibility-by-fejiro-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10305","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Okowa, you are fast losing the street credibility by Fejiro Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/okowa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9214\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/okowa.jpg\" alt=\"okowa\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>This is not a public letter to you. You may call it an excerpt of what is to come in my private memo that will be sent to you and you may be right or wrong. I wanted you to come back from your vacation abroad before I will send this out.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I must say I&#8217;m very impressed with your birthday celebration, devoid of pomp and glamour that follows your office. You quietly took your family to London and all we saw were just two pictures of you. No state money was spent on it and I doubt if you even spent your personal money to celebrate it apart from the pictures that won&#8217;t cost up to \u20ac10. You have become so stingy of late and your birthday depicted it. I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p>Now down to business. Deltans are not happy with you. Anyone telling you that they are jubilating with you is only deceiving you. Even among your appointees are many who dine with you in the day and wine with APC at night. I do not wish to mention names. As a person, I grade you an A without apologies to anyone but truth is my grade alone cannot guarantee you 2019 victory. I have just one vote and the highest I can do is to sway public opinion to your favor and gladly enough, you have done projects that can be marketed but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Deltans are hungry and the complain everywhere is that you are running an Ikanised government. The only two persons helping to alleviate the poverty in the land and setting up young persons are your Principal Secretary, Hilary Ibegbulem and your DOP, Ifeanyi Eboigbe. All the other principal officers including your commissioners are dying in silence apart from the few who already made money in past government like David Edevbie and Kingsley Emu, but these two are as stingy as Aradite glue. Edevbie is worst, he has succeeded in shielding himself from people, answering them rudely and arrogantly. Do I talk about your health commissioner, Azinge, the Chief Complainant? I will give out their names in the private memo.<\/p>\n<p>Agreed that the State is broke but in its brokenness, some are still smiling to the bank with little contracts they are given. After all, your kinsman whom you made the SA on students affairs hijacked the million Naira contract you gave to the students community while giving out peanuts. He will soon be a guest of EFCC, PH Zone before facing Abuja as Nigeria youngest political looter.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The appointments you made has become too much and I&#8217;m surprised, you still announced another while abroad. Some of them are just irrelevant, just as some commissioners are like drain pipe to our finances and should be removed. Where are the focus group members in your government? Where are the Core Delta Youths group in your administration? Where are The Bell Ringers that made your campaign interesting? Were they only a means to an end?<\/p>\n<p>The time for cabinet shakeup is imminent and it&#8217;s imperative that the dull ones among them should just be kicked out. One of those Deltans feel do not merit to be your Commissioner again is the Commissioner for Information, Patrick Ukah. I am yet to truly access him but this is what Deltans and NUJ in the State are saying.<\/p>\n<p>Some are already saying no vacancy for 2019 as if they own the votes or do they plan to rig? You see people like Igbuya and those funny Urhobo clowns saying such just to deceive you are only leading you to political perdition. The real people who will decide it are on the streets and I am one of such, monitoring the streets. Truth is, you have lost the street credibility, even in Anioma region.<\/p>\n<p>No one on empty stomachs support people. Those you have empowered apart from Hilary (not because he&#8217;s my friend) have not empowered anybody. As a matter of fact, Olorogun Kent Akigho Okiemute will soon be facing his own media scandal for a supposed use and dump tactics he carried out. Your Excellency, empowerment is power and most people who should be empowered are yet to, morally and financially.<\/p>\n<p>Your projects are breathtaking. If I was the governor, I doubt if I could have done one third of what you did without borrowing to fund it, but that is not what the street people want to hear. As long as they see Asaba still a glorified village with flood everywhere, you will always be a victim of hate. Blaming the past administration by anyone now cannot hold water. I once blamed but has since realised that government is continuous and the Baton has been handed over to you.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, those who feel they love you more than me or have greater stakes in your government will start calling my relationship with you to test and hurling insults as usual that I want to pull your government down. But when the chicks come home to roost, among your genuine lovers who wish you well, I will be among the last men standing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, be careful in your financial running of the state. My visit to the EFCC office on Friday with my friend confirms that you, Tompolo and Gov Nyesom Wike are already target. They daily wait petitions against Delta politicians are they have started writing on you already. Who did, I&#8217;m unraveling.<\/p>\n<p>This small post is incoherent but pick the little you can out of it. It&#8217;s straight from the heart that mean well for you.<\/p>\n<p>As you expect my private memo, Pls carry out a quick cabinet shakeup. Welcome back from your two weeks deserved rest.<\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a public letter to you. You may call it an excerpt of what is to come in my private memo that will be sent to you and you may be right or wrong. I wanted you to come back from your vacation abroad before I will send this out. 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