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<\/a><\/p>\nBY THOMPSON BELLO\/POLITICAL DEPUTY EDITOR<\/i>, SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/b>OBVIOUSLY, <\/b>Godsday Orubebe, Honorable Minister of Niger Delta is walking the tight-rope and \u2018acting dishonorably\u2019 if the information sent to us by electronic mail from Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Nigeria\u2019s foremost statesman and Ijaw National Leader is to be taken seriously. The past of Orubebe have seemingly come face-to-face starring him in the eyes as Concerned Nigerian Youth Forum, a non-governmental political pressure group acting on the \u2018blessings of Clark\u2019 have gone down memory lane to explain how Orubebe allegedly \u2018pleaded\u2019 on several occasions with Clark when James Ibori was then governor of Delta State to be made a Special Adviser.<\/p>\n
Late Yar\u2019Adua gave Clark warning to drop support for Orubebe<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/b>Naija Standard<\/i><\/b> <\/b>can tell you that if Nigeria\u2019s former president, Musa Yar\u2019Adua were to be alive, he probably would have come down hard now on Clark for \u2018cleaning-up\u2019 Orubebe and bringing him to the nation\u2019s national limelight.<\/p>\n
The economy got so bad and biting to Orubebe that he could not allegedly pay his air fare to Abuja to attend the Senate screening of his ministerial position, until Delta leaders and stakeholders had to pay his transport fares, a fact that was confirmed by Concerned Nigerian Youth Forum (CNYF)<\/p>\n
Spokesman for CNYF said \u201cWe are dismayed that Elder Godsday Orubebe contemplated and even sponsored attacks in newspapers on Chief E.K Clark, a highly respected leader and 86 years old statesman for reasons we are so far unable to fathom. What a naked dance of Elder Orubebe but alas! \u201cIngratitude is a despicable sin. Shakespeare personified it as a “marble-hearted fiend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, the associates of Chief E.K Clark, have read with great consternation, the unguarded vituperations credited to Elder Godsday Orubebe, and his agents against elder statesman, Chief E.K Clark, published in some national dailies.<\/p>\n
Yar\u2019Adua Warned<\/b><\/p>\n
The statement read: \u201cChief E.K Clark brought Orubebe to National Political limelight, even against the express objection of His Excellency, the late President Shehu Umaru Yar\u2019Adua and the erstwhile Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrubebe fired the first shot which amounts to an abomination to tradition and custom, a trifle too embarrassing and apposite, to the express directive to all public officers, never to mix up extant constitutional obligations of public office, with the delusions of grandeur, about 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, the elder statesman and technocrat, Chief E.K Clark, was merely reminding Mr. Minister of the morality of the presidential directive. Let us inform those misled benefactors who attacked Chief. E.K. Clark that Godsday Orubebe has challenges from his political antecedents. \u00a0Perfidy just because he wanted to be Special Adviser under James Ibori, Orubebe betrayed the whole of ANPP in Delta State and decamped to PDP for his own selfish and personal intent.<\/p>\n
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How Ibori declined pleas from Orubebe to be made Special Adviser<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
The letter further reads: \u201cLet us inform those misled benefactors who attacked Chief. E.K. Clark that Godsday Orubebe has challenges from his political antecedents. \u00a0Perfidy just because he wanted to be Special Adviser under James Ibori, Orubebe betrayed the whole of ANPP in Delta State and decamped to PDP for his own selfish and personal intent.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with nostalgia and melancholy that we remember how members of the Delta State Leaders and Stakeholders Forum contributed money for transport so that Elder Godsday Orubebe could attend his Senate his screening ceremony prior to his confirmation by the Senate as Honourable Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, we advise the Honourable Minister to concentrate on his ministerial work to uplift the country and the Niger Delta in particular which our people have so much expectation for.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe therefore wish to advise Elder Godsday Orubebe, his political associates and followers to pursue their political ambition with decorum, peacefully and without acrimony; and desist from any further attacks on the person of Chief E. K. Clark so as not to cause crises and dissentions in\u00a0the Ijaw Nation.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/b>\u201cChief Clark’s leadership role in the resolution of the Niger Delta crisis cannot be overemphasized. He has led his Ijaw people from the six coastal States to all peace negotiations convened on the conflict and continues to seek succor and relief for his oppressed tribe who unanimously acknowledge him as Ijaw National Leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe seize this opportunity to once again urge all political office holders particularly at the national level to concentrate on their jobs and bring democracy dividends to the people. We urge Elder Godsday Orubebe to use the same national press to immediately render unreserved apology to the revered papa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark and further call his surrogates to order. This should be done without pre-conditions demanded on the elder Statesman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BY THOMPSON BELLO\/POLITICAL DEPUTY EDITOR, SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA \u00a0OBVIOUSLY, Godsday Orubebe, Honorable Minister of Niger Delta is walking the tight-rope and \u2018acting dishonorably\u2019 if the information sent to us by electronic mail from Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Nigeria\u2019s foremost statesman and Ijaw National Leader is to be taken seriously. The past of Orubebe have seemingly come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}