I will also show that Okowa used these two individual to smear both his friends and foes and as the campaign developed it spread to organisations like, the Vanguard Newspaper, the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), they attacked Mrs Roli Shiela Uduaghan, Anthony Obuh when it was clear that Obuh had Uduaghan\u2019s support; they attacked the former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Victor Ochei and they attacked many others including E. K. Clarke, David Edebvie, the UPU President General, Chief Omene and President Goodluck Jonathan to name a few. They spread rumours of fraud, bribery, corruption in this Okowa\u2019s smear campaign revealing details of private conversations and meetings, which can be demonstrated that Okowa was present at those meetings. All the while, they unashamedly promoted Okowa, singing his praises as the God-appointed next governor of Delta State and a decent honourable man.<\/p>\n
I started following Oliver from as far back as September 2014 when he published an article entitled \u2018Gov. Uduaghan Chase Journalist Away from Assignment for Being an Opposition Reporter\u2019. This was surprising I had seen other articles from him praising Okowa and PDP and felt that he was working for PDP. It was the sign of a schism within the PDP that drew my interest. Then on October 7th<\/sup>\u00a02014 he published an article entitled \u2013 \u2018Dirty politics: Gov Uduaghan Release n200 million tax payers money to his anointed guber candidate thanksgiving\u2019; where he alleged that Uduaghan was desperate to impose Anthony Obuh and that \u201cDaily News NG can reveal that\u2026Uduaghan has taken the stake of godfatherism higher\u201d. A follow-up article on the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0of October announced \u2018The Danger of allowing an Uduaghan Sponsored Puppet Gov. In Delta State\u2019 purportedly written by one John Onwuyai Okafor. The article branded Uduaghan as a man who \u201chas demonstrated the acute myopia of his vision, the poverty of his intellect, the bankruptcy of his conscience and the infinity of his greed\u2019.<\/p>\n The REVELATION of who Oliver Fejiro is working for came on October 22nd<\/sup>\u00a02014 which this so-called Investigative journalist published an article entitled, \u2018Gov. Uduaghan @ 60, give us this governor as your birthday gift\u2019. In this article Fejiro pleaded with Uduaghan, \u2018As you bask in the euphoria of celebrating a worthy 60th<\/sup>\u00a0year, Deltans have pleaded with me to plead with you to depart gracefully and leave behind a legacy of a worthy successor\u2019; he went on further to say, \u2018Delta State is too complex to be left in the hands of professional civil servants\u2026 because they are your die hard loyalist\u2019. Fejiro then boldly, and without any journalistic integrity, announced \u2018Sir, on this day\u2026 with the blessings of God accrued to you, and the ultimate crown of making you a governor against all odds; we are asking you for this birthday gift; give us Senator Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa as the next governor of Delta State\u2019 Voila \u2013 its was now very clear that Fejiro was not a journalist but a campaign manager. I have it on good authority that this particular article was carefully prepared by the dynamic trio of Fejiro, Alex Okunbor and Okowa himself.<\/p>\n Of course, things didn\u2019t go as planned and Uduaghan apparently continued to puch Anthony Obuh, Okowa had to step up the pressure on Uduaghan and Fejiro Published an article on the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0of November entitled \u2018The hidden Monumental Corrupt details of Gov Uduaghan of Delta State (PT 1). This article represented a significant escalation as it revealed many serious details that only a very senior insider must have revealed to him. Fejiro introduced the article that \u2018as the race to 2015 heats on\u2026 many Deltans are not aware of why\u2026 Uduaghan is fighting tooth and nail to install his successor\u2019. He went on to say that his investigation had unearthed \u2018many cans of worms\u2019. He then made the following allegations:<\/p>\n The article closed by urging anti-corruption agencies to look into the State\u2019s financial records. Who is this \u2018reliable sources\u2019 that has such access to sensitive and secretive information to give to an investigative journalist?<\/p>\n The Part 2 of his article followed on the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0of November 2014 and was aptly titled \u2018Photo News: Gov Uduaghan, Wife & Aide billion Naira properties (pt. 2)\u2019 and it was a sensation. As the title suggest it was full of photos of properties alleged to belong to Uduaghan, his wife and his \u2018front\u2019. A \u2018Tuoyo\u2019 who works for NDDC. The additional allegations in this part 2 included the following:<\/p>\n Fejiro provided full photos of all the buildings mention in full colour, highlighting the extent of the time, money and other resources that would have gone into the commissioning of the investigation and the intimate knowledge of Uduaghan\u2019s affairs that the directing hand of Fejiro\u2019s activities must have. The final article in the triple series was published on 14th<\/sup>\u00a0November with the title of \u2018Womanising Governor: The high profile ladies Gov Uduaghan has broken their marriages \u2013 (PT3); in which he alleged that \u2018reliable sources with his (Uduaghan\u2019s) government\u2019 revealed the following:<\/p>\n As the primaries battle intensified Okowa and his strategist began to target the presumed candidate of Uduaghan, Anthony Oboh. Alex Okunbor published an article on his blog, \u2018Gov. Uduaghan Annointed Candidate Obuh Breaks Civil Service Rule to Cover Corrupt Practices\u2019 was the outlandish headline. The Article went on to allege that \u2018Sir Anthony Chuks Obuh\u2026 the immediate past Permanent Secretary, Government House has broken the civil service rule just to cover up his suspected fraud\u2019. The went on further to allege that Obuh handed over to \u2018Mr Benson Oboroh, a level 13 admin officer, while there were six officers ahead of him\u2019. Towards the end of November 2015, it was clear that Obuh had built strong momentum and others candidates we worried about their prospects. This gave rise to the famous meeting in Abuja where the other PDP candidates (including Okowa) signed a communiqu\u00e9 against Uduaghan and Obuh. What was interesting was that Fejiro and other of their team were almost reporting this meeting live on social media. It culminated in an article titled \u2018THE DELTA STATE COMMUNIQUE THAT GAVE UDUAGHAN SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND THE LIES BEING PEDDLED\u2019; in which the sponsor of Fejiro Oliver and the source of his information was made very clear. \u2018If there is one thing that will forever haunt Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, it will be the very day that some of the guber aspirants formed a formidable force to look at him boldly in the face and dare him to anoint Obuh as a candidate for the PDP\u2019 he asserted. Fejiro said that some were peddling rumours that the signature on the paper is not real but the he Fejiro Oliver, \u2018for the records, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa was at the meeting and I can authoritatively say that what he penned down as his signature is his\u2026 I can speak for Senator Ifeanyi Arthur Ekwueme Okowa\u2019<\/p>\n These are some of the major articles in which Okowa and his team smeared the name Uduaghan and his colleagues in PDP and the government of Delta whilst pretending to Deltans to be a gentleman and the new face of PDP in Delta State went on a backstabbing spree, taking no prisoners and giving no thoughts to who might be collaterally damaged (the families of the people they named) in his quest for power. What follows is a list of other articles published by the Okowa team as part of this major scandalous smear campaign:<\/p>\n I have provided ample evidence of the insidious activities of Okowa and his time and I have photographic evidence and documents of the websites and Facebook postings to back up every statement made here. I have tried to chronologically present the evidence and use direct quotes to avoid confusion. What Okowa has revealed might be true but there is clear evidence that there is targeting and colouring and exaggerations; but more importantly he did it not in the interest of justice but in the interest of furthering his own ambitions. The treacherous activities of Okowa and the fact the his is also implicated in the activities he reports leads me to conclude that he is not a fit and proper person to be governor of Delta State or a holder of any public office.<\/p>\n By Eloho Emonefe<\/p>\n\n
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