Bemgba Iortyom of PDP insults Mike Onoja, calls him political nomad

MIKE ONOJA JUST ANOTHER CONFUSED POLITICAL NOMAD GOING ABOUT BARE-FOOTED

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State is aware of a report in The Nation Newspaper concerning the decamping yesterday of Chief Mike Okibe Onoja from the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Orokam Ward 3 in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of the state.

Ordinarily, we shouldn’t bother reacting to what is merely another charade, same as has been acted lately by politicians of the same ilk as Chief Onoja, and who share same attributes of emptiness, declining relevance and confusion with him.

However, we must set the records straight regarding some ridiculously contradicting comments credited to the decampee, Chief Onoja, against the PDP led State Government administration at the event.

Chief Onoja is quoted as having eulogised the APC, saying; “I choose to go with APC because its policies are viable and the people can feel them. Look at our rural population, which is predominantly farmers! Go to our villages now and see the level of development going on there. This is because farmers are enjoying the APC goverment’s local content development.

“And so, I belive that if I join forces with APC, our people will get more. We are impressed by the policies of the APC government and we want the party to continue in government”.

But then, in bewildering contradiction, the septuagenarian, at the same venue and in same speech lamented that; “We have all been victims of mal-adminsitration ravaging the state like locust. We all have a role to play to correct the mistakes of 2019.”

He even queried why “tens of communities are in darkness, (with) no safe drinking water, comatosed local government and a moribund civil service”.

It is evident and sad to see that the level of confusion ravaging this retired Federal civil servant is so acute he probably has so soon forgotten that Benue rural dwellers have had crimes of genocidal proportions committed against them under the watch of the same APC led administration at the federal level which he was blindly eulogising in Orokam.

Perhaps, be intends to, like a visual artist, paint a landscape portrait of an imaginary Benue upon which the rural communities from Agatu to Oju burnt down and sacked by killer Fulani herdsmen will be represented as flourishing cities on the beaches of his imaginary ocean of APC rule.

But should we really blame Chief Mike Onoja for his chronic disorientation and dislocation from the reality of the Benue situation under the tragic neglect of the APC led federal government?

Does his defection to the APC in any way pose a threat to even any of the smaller political parties, not to mention PDP which presence is being felt in every community of the state?

What impact did Chief Onoja have on the fortunes of SDP in the 2019 elections as a Senatorial candidate of the party, considering it lost at all levels of the polls, failing to win even a single seat?

Doesn’t APC’s celebration of expired political nomads moving from other parties (not PDP) to its derelict platform only reflective of pathetic desperation similar to that shown by a drowning man clutching even at floating straws?

In conclusion we urge the public to excuse Chief Mike Onoja’s badly exposed disorientation and confusion, and rather empathise with him as a man who, having suffered series of election defeats since 2007 to date on virtually every political platform in the state, is at this stage just an ageing political nomad going about bare-footed.

Bemgba Iortyom,
State Publicity Secretary,
PDP, Benue State.
16/8/2020.