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The reactions of the controversial APC Spokesman of Kogi governorship Campaign council for the reelection of Governor Yahaya Bello,Tom Ohikere is a testament of poor student of history and somebody with erosion of records
A statement in reaction to his outbursts,issued by Comrade Austin Usman Okai,Deputy Director of Communication said Ohikere is still struggling to extricate himself from the blacklist of the international body, as a personal non- grata even in his ancestral state
Okai said for Ohikere to describe the former senate President as insignificant to Kogi politics,is a drama and utterances taken too far,if he has to reckon with North Central politics overtime,and Kogi politics in recent time
Comrade Okai reminded Ohikere the roles of former Senate President during the controversial ascension to the leadership of the state in 2015,by his new paymaster and his betrayal after all the assistance and recommendation
Saraki’s political dynasty and influence in the North Central span for over four decades,as he inherited the political leadership of the region from his late father and sustain the influence modestly till now
‘As a political gatecrasher,Ohikere and his pay masters will not know the greater roles and impact the Saraki’s had played both in the old Kwara and Benue and even in the recent past,Kogi state’
‘The former Senate President has been a stabilising factor that gives political direction to the people of Kogi state,as even the current administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello is not left out ‘
‘For Ohikere to come with such negative vituperation,is a testament of a political class with out record of the past or the recent past’
‘This was the same Ohikere that turned the National Assembly as second home, struggling day and night to see Saraki for succour,after he was sent on exile from his home state through threat of death by his newly discovered pay master,shows he is really an ingrate and a political harlot’
‘Again,I challenged Tom Ohikere to go back to his root,if at all he is from the central and beckon on history of the area,how the Saraki’s have supported the growth and development of the area overtime ‘
He described his utterances as reckless,nonchalant, irresponsible,ethnic based and still roaming in the embarrassment of the international organisation verdict passed on him
Okai said the mediation and intervention of Saraki into Kogi politics is not new and will be the best thing that will happen to the area that will guarantee victory for PDP in the next month election
He wondered why Ohikere has returned to his old way of life,after his confession of turning a new leaf, soon after the 2015 election,now protagonist of ethnic Champion
