By Our Correspondent
Facts have emerged on why the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the forthcoming general elections, Chief Great Ogboru, persistently lose his bid to rule the oil-rich state even when he claimed victory in successive contests engaging declared winners in legal battles which never award him victory.
In an indept investigation, an impeccable presidency source who pleaded anonymity for fear of possible sanction told our correspondent over the weekend that Chief Ogboru, no matter how many polls garnered by him and no matter how many times he contested elective positions would never be declared winner even though he is seen to have been victorious.
According to Aso Rock records, our source stated, Ogboru is number 62 among the list of those who must not be allowed to rule any part of Nigeria, be it in a democracy or otherwise, this he noted has been the major impediment to his victory at the polls.
Number one on the list our source stated was the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, citing his electoral failure during the era of the Alhaji Shehu Shagari-led defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) government when the late Biafran leader returned to Nigeria after years of exile in Gabon having failed in his secession bid failed.
Further investigation revealed that the then NPN government chose to declare one of the Mbadiwes as winner of the Upper Legislative Seat an action which he said got so many tongues wagging.
“The old Anambra electorates questioned the victory of the then relatively unknown Mbadiwe over a man whose spirit and soul epitomised Ndigbo betterment.”
Ogboru’s stigma according to our source is not unconnected with the Gideon Okar-led coup of 1991 which was described in many quarters as the bloodiest coup in the history of Nigeria and reportedly sponsored solely by the Abraka-born fish magnate.
Furthermore,it was reliably gathered that Chief Ogboru is aware of the stigma of sponsoring rebellion against the Nigerian state but has chosen to play games with the numerical strength of his Urhobo people in his incessant contests.
Our source noted that it was the reason the businessman turned-politician refused to join any major political party to forestall spending his money on party primaries but choose those lowly rated political parties where the party ticket is given to him free of charge.
“Let me tell you, no amount of psychophancy, pretence and political romance with the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would make the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declare Chief Ogboru a winner of any election in Nigeria.
“He occupies number 62 on the list of those who will taste political power no matter how big or small in Nigeria as result of being the arrow head of the bloodiest coup in the history of this country.
“Number one on that list is the late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, the former Biafran leader who led the people of Eastern Nigeria into a civil war against the federal government of Nigeria. This ac ousted for the reason he lost his Senatorial bid to a little known Mbadiwe who was declared winner of the Senatorial Seat in lieu of the legendry Ojukwu who was a returnee from exile in Gabon after the then Alhaji Shehu Shagari-led NPN government granted him amnesty.” our source stated.
Futile efforts were made to get the Ogboru Campaign Organisation’s take on the issue but the running mate to Chief Ogboru, Chief Peter Erebi, dismissed it saying it was a huge joke as he denied further comment.
Recall that since returning from exile in 2000, Chief Ogboru since 2003 has made several efforts at taking a short at the Government House Asaba but repeatedly failed.
He started in 2003, when he contested the governorship seat on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) against the then incumbent and kinsman, Chief James Ibori, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In furtherance to his quest for the exalted position of the state executive, Ogboru, in 2007, stormed the political space again on the platform of Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) but failed to clinch it, a feat he repeated in 2011 but failed, not even the court ordered re-run of January 2011 could earn him the seat.
