Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has allegedly threatened the Igbo business community in Delta State with eviction from their shops if they go ahead to vote for any other governorship candidate that is not PDP’s Sheriff Oborevwori
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as well allegedly offered a vote-inducing bribe of $50,000 to the Igbo traders leaders who were summoned to meet him in Asaba yesterday, with a charge to them to go and mobilize their members and kismen to vote for PDP governorship candidate come March 11.
Governor Okowo has gone on the war path, vowing to destroy any element that hinders the emergence of Sheriff Oborevwori as his successor.
An ally of Okowa who would not want his name on prints hinted this platform that Okowa would not mind plunging the state just to have sheriff emerge, after his woeful political outing at the vice-presidency level
“Our principal is making an irredeemable mistakes in his desperation to get vote for Sheriff. Threatening a people like Igbos for vote is definitely going to nail him. He thinks he can induce them with money. With what we saw in Abuja and Lagos, Igbos have realized their political value and will not bark down again. They’ll eat your money and still mess you up. That’s what my principal hasn’t realized. He picks offence when we try to tell him that appeal will work better than threat.
Meanwhile, Delta indigenes have enumerated the reason for abandoning Okowa. Aside from foisting his partner-in-crime Sheriff Oborevwori on the people as his successor, the group under the auspices of Greater Delta Agenda has enumerated the collection and mismanagement N850 billion loans, the divesting of state funds into personal businesses, including floating a bank using proxy, non payment of pension, incessant increase of school fees in state tertiary institutions, and the menace of joblessness where countless graduate resort to Keke riding as a way of surviving the hardship occasioned by Okowa leadership.
