Oshiomhole Slams Orubebe, Calls him A “Clown,” A “disgrace”

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says former Minister of the Niger
Delta, Mr Godsday Orubebe is afraid of President Muhammadu Buhari’s
planned probe of several billions of naira squandered on the East-West
road and on the Amnesty programme under his watch as Minister of the Niger
Delta Affairs, adding that this is the basis for his latest outburst in
the media.


The Governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter
Okhiria said the incompetence of people like Orubebe contributed to the
dismal failure of the administration of former president Goodluck
Jonathan.

He said: “Our attention has been drawn to the latest outburst of one clown
called Godsday Orubebe in his attempt to taint the image of the Governor
of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

“It is no surprise that the former president, Goodluck Jonathan failed
woefully because he surrounded himself with such charlatans as Godsday
Orubebe, whose only credential is his ethnic origin and the large size of
his bowler hat.

“Here was a man whose un-ministerial conduct at the election nearly
plunged the nation into an avoidable crisis “Does Orubebe really think
Nigerians are fools, does he truly believe Nigerians have forgotten so
soon the ignoble role he played in his attempt to truncate the release of
the election results and announcement of the eventual winner of that
election, a move which could have plunged the nation into another civil
war?

“Is it not a shame that Orubebe who should be cooling off his heel in jail
for that failed plot to truncate democracy has now found a convoluted
voice?

“We are not surprised at the timing of Orubebe’s latest outburst. It is no
doubt unconnected with the planned probe by President Muhammadu Buhari of
the billions of naira allocated to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs,
even as the East-West road remains in bad shape and the probe of the
fleecing of amnesty funds under his watch.

“We are aware that Orubebe, the perpetual noise maker has raised the
decibel of his noise a notch higher so that he would have a ready-made
defence of witch-hunting if he is indicted in the planned probe of Amnesty
funds.

“Orubebe is a yesterday’s man. We could have chosen to ignore him like his
Delta brother, Mr. Sunny Onuesoke, an unknown entity who doesn’t know the
arithmetics of financing, but decided to delve into a matter of a World
Bank loan, something completely beyond his mental and intellectual
capacity, but we simply can’t let Orubebe have the last say.

“We are not unaware that it has now become the fad for drowning and
neophyte politicians to take cheap shots at the impeccable character of
the Comrade Governor just to gain cheap publicity. However, Orubebe’s
image, as he himself knows, is beyond redemption.

“Is it not laughable that Orubebe, the clown, accused Oshiomhole of biting
the fingers that fed him? Pray, how did Jonathan feed Oshiomhole? Did he
feed Oshiomhole by supervising over a government that fleeced the nation
of trillions of naira, thereby denying Edo State her rightful share of
funds for development? Or did he feed Oshiomhole by canvassing votes for
him!

“Our candid advice is for Orubebe, a perpetual failed Governorship
aspirant, to go to his family and apologise for the irreparable damage
done to the family name with his infamous outburst beamed live to the
whole world, before coming forward to confront Governor Adams Oshiomhole
who is not in any way in the same class as him.

“It is no wonder that Nigeria was at a state of near collapse until
President Muhammdu Buhari came on a rescue mission and rendered people
like Orubebe irrelevant.

“Never again will characters like Orubebe take us on the path of Golgotha;
never again will they hold sway in the affairs of Nigeria and ruin the
collective aspiration of the people.”