By Zik Gbemre The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for Anioma State. After all the hype about his Anioma state campaign which I supported wholeheartedly because of its implication to the state of rest of Delta post Anioma creation, Ned Nwoko should be worried why despite defecting to APC, his…
Read MoreTag: Zik Gbemre
NED NWOKO: HOW NOT TO LOSE SELF ESTEEM
By Zik Gbemre The manner Sen Ned Nwoko is prosecuting his political harlotry in joining the bandwagon defection to federal ruling APC is leaving me wondering if something, somebody or group who don’t mean well have suddenly not maliciously reformatted the brains of the supposedly articulate chief campaigner for Anioma State. To use his defection as a guise to intensify his ethnic discrimination against incumbent Governor Sheriff Oborevwori is, to say the least, disgusting, so reproachable, going by the trending utterances attributed to him. Yes, some may be…
Read MoreUZOR: DELTA CHIEF PEACE BREACHER MASQUERADING AS CHIEF PEACEMAKER
By Zik Gbemre, From his Asaba comfort zone, self acclaimed Delta State Chief Peacemaker, Chief Edwin Uzor, watched like spectator as Governor Oborevwori’s political officeholders from Okpare Olomu attempted to set the Ughelli South LGA community on implosion in defiance of the community constitution and manipulation of government institutions. He was aware and consented when political officeholders from Okpare Town induced a community tyrant and some elders to compromise due process enshrined in the community constitution to appropriate community lands to selves. Uzor was aware when,…
Read MoreGOVERNMENT INSENSITIVITY TO THE PLIGHT OF OKUAMA PEOPLE SO INCITING
By Zik Gbemre The piteous conditions residents of Okuama, Ughelli South LGA community of Delta state now live upon return from the Ewu IDP Camp after being displaced for months attest to the gross insensitivity of the Delta state government to theirs. The Abraham Ogbodo led Camp Management Committee indicated the camp opened 27th May 2024 had to be shut in December 31st of the same year after nearly over 15,000 claimed IDP population had left for their ancestral homeland at the start of a new farming season. When…
Read MoreTINUBU BORROWING GENERATIONS UNBORN INTO SLAVERY
By Zik Gbemre The mounting World Bank loans in billions of dollars Nigeria is swallowing under President Bola Tinubu leaves many questions than answers. When will these loans be paid? What exactly have they done with the loans? Are these loans gotten to Nigeria or being shared by individual politicians? Before Obasanjo left government as President in his second term Nigeria was debt free. I, Zik Gbemre, Charles Soludo, Ngozi Iweala though in the World Bank and few others were strong advocates of Nigeria debts cancellation. Then…
Read MoreTINUBU, OBOREVWORI, EGBETOKUN MUST GUARD AGAINST REPEAT OF OKUAMA IN OKPARE
By Gbemre Nigerian Army has occupied Okpare, another Ughelli South Local Government Area community in Delta state over another doubtful peace mission. From the feelers we are getting, it is obvious the Nigerian Army, for self reasons best known to the authorities, are willfully not learning from past painful and shameful lessons. We are compelled to raise this alarm, calling on President Bola Tinubu, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, Inspector General of Police, Director-General DSS, Ughelli South LG Chairman and other relevant authorities, to call the Nigerian Army to order before…
Read MoreHow Okuama Exposes Institutional Failures In The Niger Delta
By Zik Gbemre Some reactions trailing the reported death of two leaders of Okuama community in military detention and the fear for the lives of four others still being held, unlawfully, expose the worsening institutional failures and inter ethnic disharmony in the Niger Delta. The utterances we have read or heard from the Delta State Government and the Pan Niger Delta Elders Forum (PANDEF) in last couple of days have been, to say the least, appalling, very shameful and inciting. Where key stakeholders who should stand in…
Read MoreTWO DEATHS IN MILITARY CUSTODY IN ONE WEEK: THERE’S CLEAR EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF OKUAMA LEADERS WITHOUT TRIAL BY FG & HER ARMY
By Zik Gbemre With the death of yet another Okuama Community leader, 81 years old Pa Dennis Okugbaye, in military detention without trial, it is now obvious there is a grand conspiracy by federal government for extrajudicial killing of Okuama Community leaders. The death of Pa Okugbaye, Treasurer of Okuama, comes just six days after President General of Okuama community in Ughelli South LGA, Pa James Oghoroko, a septuagenarian died in same circumstance. A Professor of Physics and President General of Ewu Kingdom, Arthur Ekpokpo and three others…
Read MoreESE GAM OWE UPU DAY: I Thank Urhobo Patriots For Massive Boycott By Zik Gbemre
By Zik Gbemre Amidst the profound conspiracy of silence or acquiescence among Urhobo elite to the resentful politicisation and derailment of the ideals of UPU that has made it a laughing stock under narrow-minded leadership currently headed Ese Gam, I feel deep sense of fulfillment in the massive boycott of the 2024 UPU Day called by Ese GAM. We monitored the Opening Day, Friday. Seeing the UPU House, Ovwiamuge so empty with only Ese Gam, his scam of EXCO, few collaborator Ivie seated with their wives alone, it is…
Read MoreOkuama PG’s Death In Military Detention: Urhobo Is Rudderless
Precisely on 12th November 2024, I had advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to impress on the military to unconditionally release Professor of Physics and President General of Ewu, Arthur Ekpokpo and other Okuama leaders of the Ughelli South LGA. My plea fell to the deaf ears of Tinubu who should understand he is leading a civilian government and not a military regime where human rights are trampled upon with impunity. Today, the President General of Okuama, James Achovwuko Oghoroko, who was arrested along with Prof Ekpokpo has died from…
Read More