The Anioma United Front, AUF has taken Senator Ned Nwoko to task over his claim that Governor Sherif Oborevwori hindered him from his legislative goals.
The group in a statement issued on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 cautioned the lawmaker against igniting animosity between the people of Delta North and other senatorial zones with what it described as his defenceless abandonment of his mandate gifted him by his constituency.
It would be recalled that Senator Nwoko in explaining his reason to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC alleged that Governor refused to back his quest to create Anioma State and also his funding plans for the Federal Government sponsored Okpai Power plant.
Countering him, the AUF in a statement issued by its spokesman, Onye Nkem queried the rationality of his claims noting that Senator Nwoko had failed as a federal legislator in trying to force the State Government into pushing legislative agenda that were essentially federal.
“We have waited for long to see how Senator Ned Nwoko would rationalise his defection and were not surprised by his projection of wholly irrational arguments.
“We at AUF like the majority of Ndi Anioma have repeatedly said it that we have no hand in Nwoko’s pet project of turning our state into an Igbo State. He is on his own in the fancy political project. We are shocked that at a time that several of his colleagues are drawing billions of naira of federal government projects that Nwoko’s dream has remained his propaganda scheme of Anioma as the sixth Igbo State.
“Even more ludicrous is that while his fellow senators are drawing money from Abuja to their states that he wants our governor, HE Sherif Oborevwori to plough from the state budget to fund a federal government project. This is a shock to us.” conc
“Now that he is gone, we again ask him to put his mandate on the line and re-contest his seat projecting his fanciful ideas.”
Concluding, the group tasked the people of Delta North to sustain their support for their elective representatives and not cry over spilled milk as concerning the defection of Nwoko.p