OBOREVWORI AND DELTA GUBER POLL CASES: NOW THAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS SPOKEN

BY MONDAY UWAGWU   Long ago, African sages held that no wise hunter willfully allows his community to chase after the evasive antelope in his new crop farm. The import of the ageless African proverb above is to the effect that, while misunderstandings maybe a necessary part of human life, even at the community level, the wise one would, if he were truly sincere, not persist in an unwise action which negative effects far out-weigh the envisaged benefits, if any, in the long run. For Deltans, the import of the…

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FRANK KOKORI: SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OBOREVWORI INTERVENTION

BY MONDAY UWAGWU Recently, the Governor of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, visited the ailing former National General Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) in Warri, Chief Frank Ovie Kokori, during which he undertook to foot the medical bill of the famous labour leader and immediately cleared bills of two other patients. Chief Kokori, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it is recalled, was the arrowhead of the massive nationwide pro-democracy strike in protest at the still controversial…

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