Delta: How Manipulations of UPU in 2014, Projection of Edevbie by DC-23 will push Ijaws to contest 2023 Governorship

Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa’s emergence as the Delta State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2014 rendered the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) and their misguided projection of Olorogun David Edevbie useless at that time.

The UPU was fully aware that Edevbie had the political machinery of the state government behind him and saw it advantageous to make him their consensus candidate in 2014. Painfully it crashed like a pack of card as their activities was contrary to the gentleman accord entered into by the founders, elders and leaders of the Party.

Despite their machinations, the arrangement brought a lasting solution of peace and victory in each electioneering dispensation.

The formation of the Delta central lobby group DC-23 led by Ighoyota Amori could have been another factor to concretize the gentleman agreement that produced Chief James Onanefe Ibori, as governor between 1919-2007 (Delta Central Senatorial District), Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, between 2007-2015, Delta South Senatorial District) and the incumbent, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa between 2015-2023 (Delta North Senatorial District).

There seems to be a battle of trust by some aspirants for the pressure/lobby group on the ground that the DC-23 is a tool designed and sponsored by David Edevbie to gather Aspirats from Delta Central to screen them out for (him) Edevbie to shine as the consensus candidate.

As 2023 governorship race approaches, the Okpe and Sapele axis (the Osubi), clamoured for the governorship. They argued that it is their turn to produce the next governor of the state but could not form a lobby group to press home their demands. Thereby collapsing their agitation into the Urhobo agenda.

According to the story, Unlike the Osubis, Ijaws of Delta South Senatorial District, were able to come out with a lobby group, known as Delta Ijaw for Governor 2023, with a leader, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo.

However, it is crystal clear, that with the gentleman agreement, it is not the turn of the Ijaws as the Governorship goes back to Delta Central Senatorial District for yet another eight years of two terms.

The story also noted that the anger of the Ijaws is that If truly it is the turn of Delta Central, why should an Isoko man from Delta South Senatorial District, be allowed to join the race?

Because three of their sons, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, National Coordinator of Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), the incumbent Deputy Governor, Barr. (Dcn) Kingsley Burutu Otuaro and the Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, (NASS), Senator James Manager are into the race.

They argued that some party elders and founding fathers including the leadership of Delta Central 2023, a lobby group headed by Ighoyota Amori and former governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, are throwing their weight behind the immediate sacked Commissioner for Finance and Chief of Staff, Government House, David Edebvie, who allegedly is from Isoko, Delta South Senatorial District.

According to Cherryl Media, “the entire Edevbie family being from Eyiede in Isoko has frowned at the dubious and disrespectful manner in which David Edevbie forcefully drags the family’s name to the mud especially whenever there is an election because of his selfishness, greed and self centeredness.

“Engr. Dr. Andrew painfully chastised him and sent a warning from USA as an uncle to David Edevbie to repent from continuously embarassing and dragging the entire family name to the mud saying, “David, repent from your falsehood of denying your origin and deceiving people that you are from Urhobo when everybody knows you are an indegene of Eyiede in Isoko” .

“This falsehood of David Edevbie prompted his uncle to ban him from having anything to do with his family as he has caused them a huge embarrassment, disgrace because of his style of get rich quick with Delta state treasury which has landed the entire family in a hunted net since 1999 till date.

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