By Our Correspondent
Angry youths of Olomu Kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State have slammed the immediate past Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Sen. Emmanuel Edesiri Aguariavwodo and three other political leaders, Chief John Oguma, Chief Milton Ohwovoriole, SAN, and (Hon. Chief) Collins Omonemu as well as all leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the area with a vote of no confidence.
The Youths handed down the vote of no confidence on its leaders at the end of crucial meeting which was attended by over a thousand youths drawn from the 15 communities that made up Olomu Kingdom recently.
Leader of the Youths, Amb. Samuel Oghotomo lamented that they have been deploying their youthful energies laboring for the party through the leaders and are now getting old without any achievement to show for the past 16 years of hard labor in the current advent of democracy.
While attributing the lack of empowerment and appointments of Olomu youths by successive governments since 1999 to the failure of the Olomu political leaders, they labeled the leaders as being selfish, greedy and only struggles for their individual intersects leaving the generality of the people whom they use in actualizing victory for the party in the kingdom.
“Those who call themselves Olomu leaders are busy selling away everything for their personal selfish interests thereby putting the youths and people of Olomu in abject poverty and by implication, also perpetually killing the future of Olomu as there would be nobody to step into their shoes when they eventually answer the ultimate call,” they said.
The youths vehemently condemned the manner the present crop of supposed Olomu leaders abandon them after elections, particularly since after the 2015 elections in which the Olomu youths went the extra mile to mobilize, rally round the leaders and ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emerged victorious, just as they queried if that was how past leaders of Olomu like the late Chief Thomas Ogigbah and others ran the political affairs of the kingdom.
“The Olomu youths are seriously pained that our supposed leaders continue to abandon youths and people of the Kingdom after elections right from 1999 till date, no Olomu youth has been empowered or given any appointment and now, our current governor who started on a very sound note, has started empowering people including youths across the state, but Olomu youths are yet to see any green light and that is because the leaders refuse to project or recommend any of the youths for appointment even when they are eminently qualified like their counterparts being appointed from other areas” they stated.
The angry youths vehemently warned that “any person or group of persons that transacts any political business with the above mentioned persons with regard to Olomu political affairs, does so at his or her own risk as it would meet a stern resistant from the Olomu youths.”
