Senator Nwaoboshi Political Scholarship Expired – Delta Govt.
The Delta State Government has described Senator Peter Nwaoboshi as a selfish politician who does not care for the interest of the people he represents.
The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, who stated this when he featured on Arise Television NewsDay programme at the weekend which was monitored by Forefront News in Abuja, said that the state is not in any way bothered or disturbed that Senator Nwaoboshi left the PDP.
It pointedly said that Senator Nwaoboshi was on a political scholarship which he abused, thus knows that he can no longer enjoy it.
Aniagwu pointedly said that Senator Nwaoboshi, represents Delta North Senatorial District, rode to the Senate on the political craftsmanship of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
According to the Delta Government spokesman; “The people of Delta North voted for Nwaoboshi because Governor Okowa appealed to them to support him for the party’s sake”.
The Commissioner further said that Nwaoboshi having realised that he can no longer enjoy the political benevolence of Okowa, decided to jump ship despite his suspension by the party.
Aniagwu said; “I am happy you said that he is in a rift with the governor. The governor is not in a rift with him. But, what I can tell you is that everybody who is a Deltan and understands the political equation in Delta will tell you for free that Senator Nwaoboshi is in the National Assembly on the political scholarship of Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, otherwise, there is no way he would have been in the Senate.
“He knows that deciding to dump the PDP or leaving the PDP even after he had been suspended by the party, meant that he can no longer contest the position because he knows that even if he contests that position, everyone in Delta will tell you for free that he will not win.
“We didn’t want to discuss about him, but since you asked the question, let me tell you that for about six years that he has been in the Senate, he has never taken up issues that affects our people to heart in either communicating or legislating in the hallow Chambers of the Nigerian Senate.
“You do know that herdsmen who are armed have had course to disturb a number of communities, not only in other parts of the country, but also in Delta and particularly Delta North that he represents.
“He has not for once been able to inform members of the hallowed Chambers the need for us to tackle such issues. There are a whole lot of other issues, the issues of agitations in the creek on account of not being given a reasonable percentage in terms of what is to come in respect to the Petroleum Industry Bill.
“Senator Nwaoboshi has not been able to raise his voice to speak in defence of his people. The only thing that he is crying is because he has seen that as it is, he just wanted to enjoy that scholarship again. But we feel as a people, some of us believe that the governor should not extend that scholarship given to him.
“We wish him well and we just do hope that wherever he finds himself in any political equation, that he is able to do what will serve him and possibly anything that will serve our people. We welcome it.
“We don’t hold anything against him, we don’t begrudge him but be rest assured that he knows that he will be wasting his money by the time he decides to go and pick up form, because he does not have what it takes to win any election in Delta North Senatorial District,” Aniagwu said.
