Governor Okowa and Egbema Marginalization: What the Deputy Governor Fails To Do

_WEEKEND EDITORIAL_

By Ezekiel Kagbala

Opinion among cross section of Egbema people attributed their political and Socioeconomic problems to the current Government of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and his Deputy by combating it even as against the efforts of his predecessor, former governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan made attempt to correct it by appointing one of their own for a brief period. They contended that the Deputy Governor do not represent the Ijaws rather his own Okerekoko and a group of friends. There is no better word to describe the political torment. In words and deed the Deputy Governor has never supported the quest for political space same way he treated the Ogbe Ijoh/ Aladja imbroglio.

Imaging this same Governor who granted audience to Diebiri deemed it fit to send an emissary through the Senior Political Adviser, Solomon Funkekeme to undermine the Egbema quest for political space. The Egbema leaders themselves are their problem; since they tactically celebrated their meeting with the SPA as important to them without any word from the Governor, it means the greater interest of their people is not in them rather what they can get through the SPA should there be any nomination for appointment through his office. The audience with the Governor is secondary to them.

The Egbema case is one of man's inhumanity to man. In a local government where they have forty percent stake yet, a section of the LGA with sixty percent took everything including the LGA chairman, The Commissioner in the state executive council, The Honourable member representing the LGA in the State House of Assembly and the Special Adviser to the Governor. The people are left with Nothing. The senator James Manager too has not been able to get them audience with the Governor to address the Egbema question yet, these were some of the campaign issues and will still come up in the 2023 campaigns. The people have vow that their delegates this time around will not listen to any plea of any Ijaw interest since that Interest has not been able to address the Egbema question in the polite.

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