Obaseki And Shaibu’s Vituperations Via Dan Obih’s Proxy: Waters Off The Duck’s Back

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By Comrade Chris’Oboh

September 20, 2021

Waters off the duck’s back is used to refer to a potentially hurtful remark or situation that has no apparent effect on the person or persons involved, and the present crisis rocking the Edo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP), is not unconnected with greed and or avarice by a man who thinks he owns the party more than others, and that has over the years robbed the party of any electoral victory in the state since 2007.

Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behaviour-conflict between personal and social goals.

Without mincing words, it becomes highly expedient to unequivocally frown at the use of a proxy by Chief Dan Obih, in the person of one Messrs Bob-Manuel Umoru, to call the Governor and his Deputy unprintable names via a video clip, presently trending on the cyberspace.

Reactions from different WhatsApp platforms against the unbecoming acts of the greedy General and his always hungry lieutenant has it that, Messrs Bob-Manuel Umoru who puked excreta from his stinky vocal cavity in the said video clip, is a known vuvuzela of Chief Dan Obih, whom they have investigated to be a school dropout from the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo state, over his inability to complete a degree programme in Political Science after spending over a decade.

As reported, he hails from Etsako Central LGA of Edo state, precisely, ward 6, who has never possessed a Permanent Voter’s Card ( PVC), let alone exercising his civic right via voting for anybody within his LGA or the state in general, while his being a willing tool in the hands of his greedy paymaster is hinged on his inability to secure any visible or legitimate source of livelihood for want of evidence of eligibility.

On the strength of the above, Messrs Bob-Manuel Umoru has no locus standi to speak on any issue either for or against the party, let alone having the nerves to throw tantrums at the Governor and his Deputy, over a flimsy and an untenable alibi of fighting for party structure and other subterfuges.

” Political parties are expected to have party leaders, with responsibility for the activities of the party; party executives, who may select the leader and who perform administrative and organizational tasks; and party members, who may volunteer to help the party, donate money to it, and vote for its candidates” but reverse has been the case herein as the interest is purely on what the greedy wants to benefit and not what to contribute.

From the tone of the said video clip, it is very clear to even the deafmute that it was a case of ” the hand of Esau but the voice of Jacob ” as the major target in the well prepared but poorly acted script was Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, over sheer envy, as he( Bob-Manuel), displayed total displeasure over the Deputy Governor’s claim on Channels Television, that he had no issues with his boss ( Governor Obaseki), while the paid actor activated babbling, approbating and reprobating over the seemingly Storm in a teacup between the teeth and the tongue.

The hungry lieutenant of a greedy general should be reminded that insecurity is a global issue, and that issues of national security is under the exclusive legislative list, wherein one cannot help but keep absolving the governor of the overwhelming security challenges globally. The Governor has no jurisdiction over the state’s Commissioner of Police with regards to deployment and other instructions, as such orders are directly from the centre.

Our amiable Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu is a highly cerebral alumnus of the prestigious University of Jos, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, and a holder of an MBA. He is an activist, which is a virtue that runs in his Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA). This virtue catapulted him into becoming the President of the National Association of Nigerian Students( NANS), but Bob-Manuel is oblivious of these because he never took studentship and academic issues seriously.

In 2003, he ventured into partisan politics under the platform of the All Nigerian Peoples Party( ANPP), to seek a seat in the Edo State House of Assembly, before joining the Action Congress ( AC) in 2007.

The child of destiny as fondly called, later rose to become the Edo State House Majority Leader on February 24, 2010, in view of his being highly cerebral, calculative and outspokenness . He contested and won the Etsako Federal Constituency House of Representatives seat, wherein he defeated his closest rival, with a total of 42, 679 votes against 29, 941 votes.

Providentially, he was again unanimously adopted and announced as the running mate to Governor Godwin Obaseki during the 2016 gubernatorial election in Edo state, which the duo eventually won and were sworn in on November 12, 2016. The keenly contested September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in Edo state, wherein the taproot of godfatherism was uprooted by the duo of Obaseki and Shaibu for their reelection for a second term, remains evergreen in the minds of all and sundry.

The N700 Million money laundering case preferred against the greedy general and four others, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wherein the defendants are being alleged to have sometime in March, 2015 in Benin City directly taken possession of the sum of seven hundred million ( 700,000,000) without any contract award which sum was allegedly part of proceeds of an unlawful act, with fraud and corruption, should be enough for this greedy general to understand the glaring fact that, he has zero integrity and that, a man whose house is on fire should not chase rats, but strive aggressively and calculatingly to extinguish it.

Those who live in glass houses should learn how not to throw stones.

Too bad.

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