Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has took a swipe at a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, saying the ex-minister should be jailed and not be talking on the streets.
Oshiomhole also said that the ex-minister was afraid of being probed by President Muhammadu Buhari over the multi-billion naira East-West Road contract.
The governor said, “Is it not a shame that Orubebe, who should be cooling his heels in jail for that failed plot to truncate the country’s democracy, has now found a convoluted voice?"
Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter Okhiria, Oshiomhole said that Orubebe was afraid of being probed for the amnesty programme he supervised under Goodluck Jonathan administration.
“We are not surprised at the timing of Orubebe’s latest outburst. It is, no doubt, unconnected with the planned probe by President Muhammadu Buhari of the billions of naira allocated to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, even as the East-West Road remains in bad shape and the probe of the fleecing of amnesty funds under his watch.”
Oshiomhole was reacting to a recent statement credited to Orubebe, where he reportedly described him as an ingrate for being critical of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
“Does Orubebe really think Nigerians are fools? Does he truly believe Nigerians have forgotten so soon the ignoble role he played in his attempt to truncate the release of the election results and announcement of the eventual winner of that election, a move which could have plunged the nation into another civil war?
“We are aware that Orubebe, the perpetual noise maker has raised the decibel of his noise a notch higher so that he would have a ready-made defence of witch-hunt if he is indicted in the planned probe of amnesty funds,” Oshiomhole said.